Tag Archives: monetary economics

Neil Wilson is back. Below are links to his YouTube channel and TwitchTV.I generally don't link to video and audio unless a transcript is provided. There's just too much being produced to keep up with. But a lot of people have been missing Neal, including me, so here are the links.New WaylandThe New Wayland Breakfast Show

Nathan Tankus is a go-to guy on the institutional side of MMT. Following Scott Fullwiler, I also highly recommended subscribing to his new blog if you are into the nitty gritty and don't want to miss anything since I will only be linking it selectively. Nathan offers a free and a premium service. Like MMT legal scholar Rohan Grey, Nathan is an up-and-comer and is already becoming a star. The MMT bench is broadening and deepening. Please support Nathan if you are interested and able. Here is...

Good read!  Controversy over money is nothing new in US history, since it has been a lively political issue. The arguments are not chiefly about money, although couched in terms of money, economics, and finance, but rather, politics, which involves winners and losers in the policy game. Historically, sound money advocated have been the wealthy, and functional finance people have been ordinary citizens aka "the little people" (h/t Alan Simpson).History News NetworkMMT and Why Historians...

Some of the most interesting of that new work is from, and about, central banks. As an example, here is a remarkable speech by BIS economist Claudio Borio. I am not sure when I last saw such a high density of insight-per-word in a discussion of money and finance, let alone in a speech by a central banker. I could just say, Go read it. But instead I’m going to go through it section by section, explaining what I find interesting in it and how it connects up to a larger heterodox vision of...

The following is part-3 in an open series meant to introduce the basics of modern monetary theory (MMT) and to explore the potential for MMT’s radical model of macroeconomic reality to intersect with revolutionary theory and struggle. In part-1, the basic principles and monetary mechanics of MMT were presented alongside an irresponsibly brief review of money’s evolution from its prehistoric origins to the ongoing failure of orthodox economics to explain how money functions today. Part 2...

The US budget deficit is USD 75 billion in June 2018; this is a net add of income to the private sector and allows it to grow. The good news is that dollars are being added to the economy by the Federal government, and it grows the economy. Further net inflows are expected for the rest of the year from the Federal government and private credit growth. Private credit growth has so far added $36 billion to the net money supply; last year, it was only $23 billion. At this rate, it could total...

Welcome the new kid on the block.John LauritsModern Money Systems: Understanding the Monetary Mechanics of Value Part 1Modern Money Systems: Understanding the Monetary Mechanics of Value Part 2ht Richard in the comments

Say what you want about the backers of Bitcoin, they managed to create a currency unit that acts in the insane fashion that matches the way money works in mainstream economic models. For anyone with any attachment to reality, it offers a very good real world explanation why the DSGE approach to economics is inherently useless. It is an extremely safe bet that this lesson will be completely missed by the mainstream economics profession.... Bond Economics Bitcoin As A Vindication Of...

What is the most appropriate entry point to the study of a monetary economy in which government is currency issuer? Is it “the market”? Is it the definition: total spending equals total income? Is it real exchange? Real production? Is it total output? Total employment? Total value? Distribution of income? The origin of profit? Price formation? Competition?I would answer “no” to all these suggestions. They are all important aspects of the subject, but they are all embedded in something else....