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The main lesson I want to draw from this post is (excluding being autarkic/poor or being in a monetary union): If a country wants to maintain a fixed exchange rate, the country must accumulate a lot of foreign reserves to be sovereign (or maybe some capital controls?) If a country wants to have floating exchange rates, it must convince its trading partners (or its trading partners’ trading partners) to hold its national currency as foreign reserves. losinterestMonetary Sovereignty Ricardo Martin
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: currency sovereignty, external sector, MMT, reserve currency, sectoral balances
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The main lesson I want to draw from this post is (excluding being autarkic/poor or being in a monetary union): If a country wants to maintain a fixed exchange rate, the country must accumulate a lot of foreign reserves to be sovereign (or maybe some capital controls?) If a country wants to have floating exchange rates, it must convince its trading partners (or its trading partners’ trading partners) to hold its national currency as foreign reserves. losinterestMonetary Sovereignty Ricardo Martin
Topics:
Mike Norman considers the following as important: currency sovereignty, external sector, MMT, reserve currency, sectoral balances
This could be interesting, too:
Mike Norman writes Jared Bernstein, total idiot. You have to see this to believe it.
Steve Roth writes MMT and the Wealth of Nations, Revisited
Matias Vernengo writes On central bank independence, and Brazilian monetary policy
Michael Hudson writes International Trade and MMT with Keen, Hudson
The main lesson I want to draw from this post is (excluding being autarkic/poor or being in a monetary union):
If a country wants to maintain a fixed exchange rate, the country must accumulate a lot of foreign reserves to be sovereign (or maybe some capital controls?)
If a country wants to have floating exchange rates, it must convince its trading partners (or its trading partners’ trading partners) to hold its national currency as foreign reserves.losinterest
Monetary Sovereignty
Ricardo Martin