Sovereign Money
Economics shapes everything — what you earn, what you pay, what your government can afford. This site brings together reports, papers, and articles from the OBR, IMF, OECD, United Nations, The Lancet, and others, covering monetary policy, public finance, food systems, corruption, and the cost of living. Longer resources come with AI-generated summaries and skeptical analyses designed to separate genuine economic constraints from political choices. There are interactive dashboards and downloadable data series built from official sources, and an AI research assistant trained on the full library to help you find what you need.
Articles
Shadows on the wall: The monetary myths that shape British politics
The Treasury tells us there is no money. The Bank of England tells us it operates independently. The OBR tells us the deficit must be closed. They have been projecting …
The vexed question of whether the UK can afford Modern Monetary Theory doesn’t even make sense
Modern Monetary Theory isn’t a potentially risky radical fiscal plan but simply a description of how the British state already spends
Radical Centrism - The most radical thing we can do is nothing
The European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change (ESABCC) published a report last month advising EU officials to prepare for a world 2.8 to 3.3°C hotter than preindustrial levels by …
The Deficit Obsession is Costing Us a Clear View of the Economy
It seems that whenever a government announces that they have run a deficit over a given financial period, media commentators and opposition politicians react with the same tired metaphors. We …
When democracy requires more than a physics degree
Last week I gave a talk on public finance, and during the Q&A at the end, a physicist in the audience who is working on fusion research said something along …