This week in MMT: 19 Oct to 25 Oct 2026
Framing
166 opposing-frame mentions against 17 MMT and MMT-consistent mentions over the last 4 weeks.
Provisional Keyword matches; framing was not yet published when this summary was built.
Opposing frames on the move
| Idea | This week | 4-week average | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taxpayers' money | 378 | 304.8 | Steady |
| Household budget | 64 | 37.3 | Rising |
| Magic money tree | 22 | 28.5 | Falling |
| Fiscal black hole | 12 | 7.3 | Rising |
| Maxed-out credit card | 3 | 7.5 | Falling |
| How will you pay for it? | 34 | 30.3 | Steady |
MMT ideas on the move
| Idea | This week | 4-week average | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Job guarantee | 43 | 29.5 | Rising |
| Taxes don't fund spending | 24 | 12.5 | Rising |
| Currency issuer | 81 | 74.5 | Steady |
| MMT by name | 109 | 114.3 | Steady |
| Real resource limit | 36 | 31.0 | Steady |
| Spend first, tax later | 12 | 16.8 | Falling |
| Sectoral balances | 7 | 4.5 | Rising |
| Deficit myth | 17 | 15.0 | Steady |
| Deficit = private surplus | 2 | 0.8 | Rising |
| Functional finance | 12 | 12.5 | Steady |
Voices this week
Public figures who used the tracked ideas. Nobody else is ever named.
- Ben Goldsborough 1 mention · 1 opposing frame
- Chris McDonald 1 mention · 1 MMT idea
- Kim Leadbeater 1 mention · 1 opposing frame
- Lord Callanan 1 mention · 1 opposing frame
- Lord Londesborough 1 mention · 1 opposing frame
- Lord Reay 1 mention · 1 opposing frame
- Mr Angus MacDonald 1 mention · 1 opposing frame
- Mr Louie French 1 mention · 1 opposing frame
Worth reading
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Healey’s first budget to include big devolution package to boost growth
…and businesses that have struggled as the war in the Middle East has driven up bills. These higher costs have also pushed up the interest rates on government borrowing, making it harder for Healey to balance the books. He will set out how he plans to fully fund the four-year defence investment plan announced in the dying days of Keir Starmer’s premiership. However, Healey is not expected to say when the UK will commit to spending 3% of GDP on defence – an issue that was central to his resignation from Starmer’s cabinet. This is likely to be delayed until a spending review due at some point n…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
- Opposing frame: How will you pay for it?
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Snowy Hydro 2.0 is costing $25bn – 12 times more than its initial estimate. How did we get here?
…ictoria over the next few years – and as demand grows due to datacentres. “But it’s just a really expensive thing for what it will get used for,” Edis said. Asked on Friday if $25bn was a good use of taxpayers’ money, the climate change and energy minister, Chris Bowen, told News24 it was a “fair question” but he believed the development would “provide net benefits to the Australian people”. He stressed the scale of the development – a power station the size of the Sydney Opera House a kilometre underground, with tunnelling in terrain that wasn’t properly understood from the start – and decl…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Jarrow Crusade
…n by 2029, we have begun rolling out youth guarantees across Great Britain. The youth guarantee gateway is now available in jobcentres. We are expanding youth hubs. We have launched the £3,000 youth jobs grant and are rolling out the jobs guarantee. Youth hubs are a crucial part of our youth guarantee. They bring together the employment skills and wider support that young people need to move into work, training or education. By expanding the network to over 360 locations across the country, more young people will be able to access personalised and wraparound support in their local community.
- MMT-consistent idea: Job guarantee
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Equitable Life Policyholders: Compensation
…act. Why does that matter? First, our constituents end up having money taken from them and their lives turned upside down. Secondly, the Government have to step in and provide financial compensation—taxpayers’ money—but it is too often inadequate and, as my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds North East said, some do not get any money at all. It is right that the Government provided compensation for my constituents and others who suffered as a result of this injustice, but we should not have got there in the first place. The Equitable Life scandal is a reminder of what happens when regulators…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Every Major School of Economics Explained (From Adam Smith to MMT)
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- MMT by name: MMT by name
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The Simple Truth About Inflation and Government Spending
Modern Monetary Theory is often misunderstood as a blank check for endless government spending. Yet, as this analysis points ...
- MMT by name: MMT by name
- MMT-consistent idea: Real resource limit
The week in numbers
- Media framing: 46 UK news items, up 53% on the week before
- Social conversation: 595 posts and videos, up 8% on the week before
- Academic uptake: 0 scholarly works, down 100% on the week before
- Movement health: 2 public events held, up 100% on the week before
- Attention: 3,380 Wikipedia article views, down 21% on the week before
- Political uptake: 11 speeches in Parliament, down 39% on the week before
Movement activity
- 20 Oct Global Donut Days 2026 · Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL)
- 21 Oct Degrowth and the Politics of Space · degrowthpsc.com