Tuesday's blog post (23/09) is now posted (14:00 EAST) - Kyoto Report 2025 - 1 - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62792

Monday's blog post (22/09) is now posted (17:25 EAST) - Australian Senate enquiry finds that the university sector is rotten to the core - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62789

Thursday's blog post (18/09) is now posted (12:44 EAST) - Australian labour market takes a backward step - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62776

Monday's blog post (15/09) is now posted (17:07 EAST) - Terrestrial water storage capacity is declining fast and is hardly getting any attention - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62770

Thursday's blog post (11/09) is now posted (16:21 EAST) - US Bureau of Labor Statistics revisions are not some arbitrary act but an attempt at making the data as accurate as possible - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62767

Monday's blog post (08/09) is now posted (17:51 EAST) - Some discussion about taxation - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62764 #mmt

Thursday's blog post (04/09) is now posted (11:08 EAST) - Recent podcast and some thoughts on trade - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62762 #mmt

Monday's blog post (01/09) - The struggles to teach political economy and the aftermath – we all lost - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62745

Wednesday's blog post (03/09) is now posted (15:22 EAST) - Australia national accounts - stronger economic growth in June-quarter 2025 - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62748

Friday's blog post (29/08) is now posted (17:10 EAST) - The Smith Family MMT Manga - Episode 3 for Season 3 is now available - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62743 #mmt

Thursday's blog post (28/08) is now posted (17:32 EAST) - Australia's unemployment rate is well above any reasonable full employment level - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62738

Monday's blog post (25/08) is now posted (17:47 EAST) - Cryptocurrencies are not currencies - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62736 #mmt

Thursday's blog post (21/08) is now posted (16:37 EAST) - Basing a childcare system on how much private profit it generates is a recipe for certain disaster - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62732

Monday's blog post (18/08) is now posted (16:51 EAST) - Productivity growth is not the only source of increases in material well-being for the majority - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62727 #mmt #degrowth

Thursday's blog post (14/08) is now posted (12:41 EAST) - Australian labour market - slight improvement but uncertainty continues - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62715

Wednesday's blog post (13/08) is now posted (14:17 EAST) - Australian workers get modest real wage gains in latest data - finally - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62711

Monday's blog post (11/08) is now posted (16:31 EAST) - What does it mean for a nation to become bankrupt? - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62707 #mmt

Our latest estimates of government investment required to introduce a Job Guarantee in Australia - Federal net outlays $A24.8 billion for 386.8 thousand jobs. Compare that to pandemic direct stimulus of $A311 billion over 2020-22. Access our report - www.fullemployment.net/publications...

Thursday's blog post (07/08) is now posted (17:28 EAST) - The British government's obsession with the fiscal rules is driving the economy towards recession - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62704

Monday's blog post (04/08) is now posted (17:34 EAST) - The so-called 'land of the free' is now a failed state and heading towards totalitarianism - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62700

Thursday's blog post (31/07) is now posted (16:51 EAST) - Major shifts in sentiment within Japan as they try to escape the cost-cutting excess profits mindset - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62696

Wednesday's blog post (30/07) is now posted (13:15 EAST) - Inflation continuing to fall in Australia further exposing the incompetence of our central bank - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62686

Monday's blog post (28/07) is now posted (16:42 EAST) - State level fire services need to be adequately funded - land tax hikes are necessary and progressive - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62681

Friday's blog post (25/07) is now posted (08:42 EAST) - The Smith Family MMT Manga – Episode 2 for Season 3 is now available - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62678

Thursday's blog post (24/07) is now posted (16:09 EAST) - The report of the Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism in Australia should be categorically rejected by government - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62677

Monday's blog post (21/07) is now posted (16:03 EAST) - Britain's Leeds Reforms - jumping the shark comes to mind - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62675

Can you believe all these financial market economists talking about how today’s labour market results are not bad and that underutilisation is “close to a record low”? That rate is 10.3%. Record lows were unemployment < 2 per cent (not 4.3 per cent) and almost zero underemployment (not 6 per cent).

Thursday's blog post (17/07) is now posted (12:38 EAST) - Australian labour market - evidence is mounting of policy sabotage driving the unemployment rate up - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62662

Monday's blog post (14/07) is now posted (09:16 EAT) - How to break out of the commodification of everything - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62659

Thursday's blog post (10/07) is now posted (16:13 EAT) - Treasurer, please sack the RBA governor and the Monetary Policy Board members - they have gone rogue - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62654

Monday's blog post (07/07) is now posted (16:07 EAT) - The Eurozone Member States are not equivalent to currency-issuing governments in fiscal flexibility - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62651 #mmt

Thursday's blog post (03/07) is now posted (07:32 Netherlands Time) - British Labour Government should ignore irrelevant fiscal 'black holes' and worry about the political hole it is digging for itself - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62648 #MMT

Thursday's blog post (26/06) is now posted (16:22 EAST) - Australia - the inflation spike was transitory but central bankers hiked rates with only partial information - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62641 #MMT

Monday's blog post (23/06) is now posted (17:15 EAST) - There will not be a fiscal crisis in Japan - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62638 #MMT

It's back. Season 3 of our MMT Manga - The Smith Family and their Adventures with Money - begins Friday (June 20, 2025). Lots of things are happening as the nation struggles with a major government-induced recession and upcoming elections. Available in English & Japanese. www.mmted.org/smithfamily/

Thursday's blog post (19/06) is now posted (12:44 EAT) - Australian Labour Market - steady but signs of a deterioration - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62622

Monday's blog post (16/06) is now posted (18:05 EAT) - The US dollar is losing importance in the global economy - but there is really nothing to see in that fact - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62619 #MMT

Thursday's blog post (12/06) is now posted (15:41 EAST) - The arms race - Part 2 - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62617

Wednesday's blog post (11/06) is now posted (16:17 EAST) - The arms race again - Part 1 - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62612

Thursday's blog post (05/06) is now posted (16:32 EAST) - Australia's lowest paid workers get some real wage relief from the latest adjustment to the minimum wage - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62604

Wednesday's blog post (04/06) is now posted (13:52 EAT) - Australian National Accounts - GDP growth slows significantly - slipping towards recession under current policy settings - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62588

Monday's blog post (02/06) is now posted (14:57 EAT) - The neoliberal destruction of Australia's higher education system - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62586 #mmt

Thursday's blog post (29/05) is now posted (16:41 EAT) - The Webbs knew more than a century ago that if you pay high wages you get high productivity - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62583

Monday's blog post (26/05) is now posted (17:09 EAT) - Japan sales tax debate continues - Reiwa are the only Party that understands the reality - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62574 #mmt

Thursday's blog post (22/05) is now posted (13:44 EAST) - Commentary on Moody's downgrade gives the game away - finally - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62571 #mmt

Monday's blog post (19/05) is now posted (16:06 EAST) - A Just Transition framework is required to head of the climate denying Right - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62568 #mmt

Thursday's blog post (15/05) is now posted (13:17 EAT) - Australian labour force data - employment growth absorbs rising participation without increasing the unemployment rate - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62556

Wednesday's blog post (14/05) is now posted (17:08 EAT) - Australian wages growth - real wages stable - no breakout evident - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62555

Monday's blog post (12/05) is now posted (15:59 EAT) - I wonder how progressives are viewing the fact that they gave credence to a key Trump operative - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62546

My recent podcast talk with Steve at Real Progressives - realprogressives.org/mnc-podcast-... - thanks to his crew for continuing to promote these ideas.