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Government bank accounts

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TickyandTacky · 04/09/2025 14:06

I apologise i know nothing aboit how this works.

Is there just massive bank accounts with all our taxes in and then paid out in to recipients?

Same for big energy companies or whatever?

Or is it more complicated than that?

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BrickBiscuit · 04/09/2025 14:08

'Modern monetary theory' explains this.

TickyandTacky · 04/09/2025 14:12

BrickBiscuit · 04/09/2025 14:08

'Modern monetary theory' explains this.

I'm probably not smart enough to grasp that.

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Dbank · 04/09/2025 15:08

Effectively yes. (Although many "accounts" and different financial "instruments")

Continuing the bank account analogy, we're £3 trillion over-drawn, to help understand how big a number that is....
a million seconds is 11 days,
a billion seconds is 31 years,
a trillion seconds is 31,710 years

The interest is approximately £300 million per day.

The financial institutions are happy to lend the money, whilst they believe the government has the economy under control and can pay at least the interest.

The less the financial institutions trust the Government, the higher the rates they charge, some rates are the highest they have been for 30 years.
This isn't just effecting the UK, France is having similar problems.

The Government is still spending more every month than it takes in, and the fear is they have run out of viable options.

Most voters have little experience of rampant inflation, rocketing unemployment, and an economy in a death spiral, and have zero interest in just how much trouble we're in.

I have been here before, and saw what happened in the '70, it's not going to be pretty. Watch what happens to France in the next 6 months...

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BrickBiscuit · 04/09/2025 20:46

TickyandTacky · 04/09/2025 14:12

I'm probably not smart enough to grasp that.

I'm not sure I grasp it either. But all we need to know is that the super-rich have a bigger proportion of the nation's wealth every year. And the rest of us become comparatively poorer.

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