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 these shadows on the wall for so long that most of us, MPs included, have mistaken them for reality.
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
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 the lines of “I still find our monetary system confusing”. It might have had something to do with my delivery, but I think it went deeper than that.