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Bailout Watch

Continuing our new feature during the COVID shutdown:Discount retailer Tuesday Morning files for bankruptcy, to shut 230 stores https://t.co/hlPFQGHq7H— CNBC (@CNBC) May 27, 2020 Lefty morons call this a "bailout!"....

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I’m doing a podcast.

New media coming. I am starting a podcast where I will be able to delve deeper into topics such as MMT, mental game, fiscal and monetary policy, trading and investing. Trade and invest using the concepts and understandings of MMT. Get a 30-day free trial to MMT Trader. https://www.pitbulleconomics.com/mmt-trader/?s2-ssl=yes/

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Bill Mitchell — we remember the release of the 1945 White Paper on Full Employment

Some Wednesday snippets today. Tomorrow, I will write about what I have been thinking about the Eurozone. There has been a lot of hot air about the Franco-German accord that Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel came to recently. Hot air is the operative term. The fault lines in the Eurozone continue to widen and the policy dissonance is becoming more acute as they deal, not only with the health crisis, but also the 19 economies that have been starved of investment and infrastructure...

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Germany Aims To Become World’s Hydrogen Hotspot — Vanand Meliksetia

The energy transition can be compared to a marathon instead of a sprint. As the costs of photovoltaic cells and wind turbines have significantly decreased, decarbonizing the economy has become attainable. The wealthier countries of northern Europe are, arguably, some of the most ambitious societies when it comes to the energy transition. Germany, especially, is an important country due to the size of its economy, political influence in Europe, and technological prowess. Hydrogen is an...

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Neochartalists’ Rhetoric Against Raising Taxes — Ramanan

Policy choices. My policy solution is that economic liberalism and political liberalism are incompatible. So-called capitalism (including  capital and land ownership) cannot coexist with genuine democracy as rule of, by and for the people based on egalitarian community.  The economic system that corresponds with so-called capitalism is plutocratic oligarchy, for which there is ample evidence in sociology and political theory. The economic system that corresponds with genuine democracy...

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