Tag Archives: MMT

In May of this year, House Budget Committee Republicans sent a letter to Chairman John Yarmuth (D-KY) requesting a hearing on MMT. Tomorrow, the House Budget Committee is holding a hearing titled “Reexamining the Costs of Debt,” and MMT is expected to be a central theme. The Hon. Mr. Womack neglects to say that Dick Cheney told us that President Reagan (who has been sainted by the GOP) showed that deficits don't matter. ? Maybe he should rethink his position. House Budget CommitteeThe...

I am currently working through the entire Commissaire Maigret detective series written by Belgian author author Georges Simenon. I read a lot as I travel around and I have 74 (out of 75) Maigret novels to read. But don’t let that fool you, I am already becoming familiar with Maigret’s forensic way of thinking (-:. So for the next two blog posts we will be conducting a forensic examination of data to solve a puzzle that appears to be confusing people. This is the sort of puzzle that people...

More keeper quotes. The idea behind MMT is as old as the hills. But previously, it was only a possible scenario, whereas MMT describes the existing monetary system since 1971 — the "pure creditary system" that Knut Wicksell had envisioned as a thought experiment.  Keynes said it would be useful to educated people in this in order to remove the shibboleths of the past that prevent proper fiscal response now. How prescient he was. Received knowledge is sticky even when it is shown to be...

Scott Fullwiler comments on Twitter: Scott FullwilerReplying to@BPC_Bipartisan @JJFichtner and@kkcarmodyThank you for providing further evidence that "bipartisan" is currently code for "the same shit we've been doing for decades that got us into this mess in the first place." Followed by: Authors: It's hard to pin MMT down Also authors: We didn't cite any academic MMT literature, only critics of MMT who also didn't cite any academic MMT literature And ... the authors: We actually...

L. Randall Wray will be providing testimony for Congress on November 20 at 10 am. The topic is the government debt and deficits. His full statement will be available at 10:30AM at the Levy Institute. New Economic PerspectivesWray Appearing Before Congress

From Twitter via AppThreadReader https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1133586537512341504.html Note: material in brackets is added to the original by Tom Hickey for clarification. Scott Fullwiler @stf18 1. Quick(?) MMT 101 lesson:From the very beginning in the 1990s, MMT has NEVER argued that 'printing money' was necessary. Anyone saying MMT = "print money," even if they (correctly) incorporate an inflation constraint, is getting MMT dead wrong.2. The argument from the earliest...

L. Randall Wray will be providing testimony for Congress on November 20 at 10 am. The topic is the government debt and deficits. His full statement will be available at 10:30AM at the Levy Institute. His goal is to explain a) why we needn’t fear sovereign government deficits and debt; b) why in some important sense, deficits and rising debt are “normal”; c) the deficit is in any case largely outside the control of Congress; d) deficits and rising debt ratios will not lead to government...

Book review. Many MMT points.Brave New EuropeThe Debt Delusion by John WeeksMathew D. Rose

An Explanation of the Federal Reserve Money system and what it means for the potential accomplishments of American Democracy By J.D. ALT The big surprise of our tour of the Federal Reserve system (please see PARTS 1 & 2) is that the FED (America’s central bank)—as it is presently authorized to operate—can create “money,” as necessary, to support not only the undertakings of private enterprise, but the undertakings of public enterprise as well. Please recall that public enterprise...

Bill's 4 part series on Japan.Bill Mitchell – billy blogQ&A Japan style – Part 1Q&A Japan style – Part 2Q&A Japan style – Part 3Some reflections on my time in Japan while I am too busy to writeQ&A Japan style – Part 4 Bill Mitchell | Professor in Economics and Director of the Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE), at University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia