Lars P. Syll

MMT è due cose: è una lente di osservazione dei processi di creazione e circolazione del denaro, ed è una ricetta per la piena occupazione e la stabilità dei prezzi. Quanto alla prima, i contributi migliori di MMT sono quelli che, sviscerando i nessi tecnici tra banca centrale, banche e Tesoro, dimostrano che il denaro a disposizione della spesa pubblica proviene sempre, inevitabilmente, dalla banca centrale, e che la differenza tra finanziamento sul mercato e monetizzazione...

Ayn Rand — a perverted psychopath  [embedded content] Now, I don’t care to discuss the alleged complaints American Indians have against this country. I believe, with good reason, the most unsympathetic Hollywood portrayal of Indians and what they did to the white man. They had no right to a country merely because they were born here and then acted like savages. The white man did not conquer this country … Since the Indians did not have the concept of...

Socialism — the same old scare tactics  [embedded content]

Entretien avec Stephanie Kelton dans Le Monde Stephanie Kelton propose une nouvelle étape : le droit à l’emploi pour tout travailleur, financé par l’Etat fédéral et administré au niveau local, avec une couverture sociale. Ce programme antipauvreté, qui emploierait quinze millions de personnes, coûterait 400 milliards de dollars par an, mais il entraînerait, selon elle, une hausse du PIB de 560 milliards et créerait quatre millions d’emplois privés. On lui...

When They See Us [embedded content] This series about the falsely jailed Central Park Five is hard to watch. I haven’t been so emotionally upset by a film/series since Once Were Warrior. Watch it!

Jerzy Sarnecki och Brå om brott och härkomst Brå har i dagarna kommit ut med en rapport om kopplingen mellan den stora migrantströmmen 2015 och den efterföljande ökningen av rapporterade sexbrott. Slutsatsen av de övergripande tentativa analyserna och osäkra skattningarna blir att sambandet är “svagt”. Detta hindrar dock inte Jerzy Sarnecki från att i DN påstå att studien ”visar att invandringsvågen inte har påverkat antalet sexualbrott”. Vilket ju är minst...

Unsere Kinder verfügen “über keine Frustrationstoleranz und meiden jede Anstrengung”. Jeder “zweite Azubi hat eine Psyche wie ein Kleinkind”, in den Grundschulen hinken gar “70 bis 80 Prozent der Kinder ihrer Entwicklung weit hinterher.” Die Botschaften kommen einem bekannt vor? Der Sound vertraut? Tatsächlich: Er ist wieder da. Doktor Michael Winterhoff, Kinder-psychiater und Bestsellerautor hat ein neues Buch geschrieben. Winterhoff gilt als der Thilo Sarrazin der Erziehung...

Armand Amar — Bab’Aziz  [embedded content]

 [embedded content] On my list of 20 best pop songs of all time.

We can all come up with cringeworthy clichés for why history matters to society at large – as well as policy-makers and perhaps more infuriatingly, to hubris-prone economists: — to understand the present, we need to know where we came from — history doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes! — “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” — it broadens your horizon, allows you to “zoom out“, “see the bigger picture” and draw parallels to what came before. And we...