The best way to support RadioMMT is to make a donation during the 3CR Radiothon this June.To talk all things solidarity, Kev is joined in the studio by Kent Getsinger, union organiser with Victorian Allied Health Professionals Association (VAHPA). Kent is a regular at the SPAG-Naarm pub nights and student of MMT-style economics. Anne phones in from where she has been self-isolating with a cold, to discuss the connection between MMT, solidarity, and fire ants!Thank you to our lovely, generous listeners for donating to help keep RadioMMT on the airwaves. Theme MusicPleading Ignorance, by Ed Kuepper, from the album Starstruck.https://edkuepper.com/ Additional AudioToo Many Things, by Ed Kuepper, from the album Starstruck.All I Need (featuring Beth Hirsch), by Airhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx1NwIaQbbEBeating (TONE Remix), by Tirzahhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuHlIoSVfbY

Anne is away and leaves Kevin to run the show alone. Risky, however Kevin enlists past 3CR presenter and progressive economist, Karl Fitzgerald from Grounded, to speak about Community Land Trusts. This is a community scheme to reclaim housing for public use for those who need it, a return to the concept of The Commons. After that Kevin explains his affection for the Polish economist, Michal Kalecki, and his theory of income distribution.

Anne sets Kev a challenge based on how MMT is presented in the mainstream media. And we dissect some typical discussions about money, as heard on social media. Theme MusicPleading Ignorance, by Ed Kuepper, from the album Starstruck.  Additional Audio Too Many Things, by Ed Kuepper, from the album Starstruck. ABC_Q+A11th of March, 2024Tech Giants, Generational Divides & Gaza Aidwith appearance by economist Stephanie Kelton Freakonomicsepisode 585, 24th of April 2024Stephen J. Dubner interviews Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau

Central banks are sent to battle inflation, equipped only with "nuclear-interest-rate-bombs". How might the federal government take a more nuanced approach? Should it stop spending, spend less, spend more?Maybe it should take note of the three-Cs of managing inflation -- causality, capacity, & creativity -- as heard only on RadioMMT, in this conversation with Andy the data analyst. Shownotes"MMT in a post-COVID world", ANZ On Air, July 2021 Fadel Kaboub, MMT economist Andy's graph takes the wind out of the mainstream argument that government deficit spending always triggers inflation. Theme MusicPleading Ignorance, by Ed Kuepper, from the album Starstruck. Additional AudioToo Many Things, by Ed Kuepper, from the album Starstruck.

We are experiencing levels of inflation unlike any we have seen for decades. What exactly is going on here? And what is this battle over the narrative around inflation? With the help of Andy, a data analyst with a few magical measurements up his sleeve, we will spend the next two episodes wrangling the inflation bogeyman. There is a lot at stake. Keeping everyone scared of the bogeyman is useful if you are a greedy neoliberal who wants to prevent the rest of us from accessing the treasure of the Treasury. Show NotesWhat the RBA says about inflation Theme MusicPleading Ignorance, by Ed Kuepper, from the album Starstruck. Additional Audio Tech Giants, Generational Divides & Gaza Aid, Q+A, ABC, 11 March 2024 Too Many Things, by Ed Kuepper, from the album Starstruck. Sound effectsLicence: The song is permitted for non-commercial use under license ìAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Kelli's Number by U.S. Army Blues is licensed under a Public Domain Mark 1.0 License.

Anne & Kev reflect on a film tour which blasted through Australia in the first half of March 2024. The film is called Finding the Money, and centres on the MMT story of money, and an honest approach to national so-called “debts”.On tour were the film’s director Maren Poitras, and the MMT economist featured in the film, Professor Stephanie Kelton, and Australian economist Dr. Steven Hail.For those who were not able to get to any of the events, we are bringing you some of the highlights of a Q&A which followed a screening of Finding the Money, on March 8 at Trades Hall, Carlton.The panel was moderated by Steven Hail, of Modern Money Lab. On the panel were:film director, Maren Poitraseconomist, Professor Stephanie Keltonconstitutional lawyer, Shireen Morris Theme MusicPleading Ignorance, by Ed Kuepper, from the album Starstruck.https://edkuepper.com/Additional AudioToo Many Things, by Ed Kuepper, from the album Starstruck. Broke, by Scott Lavene

Maren Poitras picks up her 'prosumer' camera, and walks into a battlefield. There she finds an underdog group of economists holding out against a storm of criticism.Why the attack? They asked the taboo question. The question which will either ostracise you, or drive you crazy!This is the question that Maren pursues in her film, Finding the Money. Her film follows this plucky group of economists, hunkered down for the long haul, and determined the world should know the answer to that fateful question, "where does money come from?"Theme MusicPleading Ignorance, by Ed Kuepper, from the album Starstruck. Additional AudioToo Many Things, by Ed Kuepper, from the album Starstruck. Finding The Money (teaser) L.U.X, by Phil & The Tiles, from Double Happiness Real Estate Mastermind, by Phil & The Tiles, from Double Happiness

While Kev is away, Anne is joined by fellow MMT-traveller, Jackson. We discuss a conversation Anne & Kev had with Maren Poitras, director of a film called "Finding the Money", the perfect antidote to "debt hysteria". Finding the Money, follows the trials and tribulations of MMT economists, notably Stephanie Kelton. Maren and Stephanie will be touring Australia with the film during February and March 2024.Support RadioMMT with your annual subscription to 3CR Radio.Subscribe online here. Finding The Money, film tourtickets here ShownotesMaren mentions women economists who are having a positive impact:Stephanie Kelton, a professor of economics and public policy at Stony Brook University, and a leading proponent of Modern Monetary Theory, which she popularised in her book, The Deficit Myth. She served as a senior economic advisor to Bernie Sanders's 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns, and served as chief economist on the U.S. Senate Budget Committee (Democratic staff) in 2015. She is founder of the blog New Economic PerspectivesMariana Mazzucato, a professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London (UCL). She is best known for her work on the dynamics of technological change, and the role of the public sector in innovation. She has been active in advising governments on innovation and growth policies. She is the author of, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism.Kate Raworth, a senior associate at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute and a Professor of Practice at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. She is known for her ecological economics framework, or "doughnut economics", an economic model that identifies the sweet spot between essential human needs and planetary boundaries.Isabella Weber, a German economist, and assistant professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. According to Wikipedia, in December 2021, an op-ed she published in The Guardian which argued that strategic price controls could help control inflation in bottleneck situations was heavily criticized by economists, making her "the most hated woman in economics" (The New Yorker). Paul Krugman called her "truly stupid", a statement for which he later apologized.Jackson mentions Claudia Sahm, an American economist, leading the Macroeconomic Research initiative of the Jain Family Institute. Sahm specializes in macroeconomics and household finance. She is best known for the development of the Sahm Rule, a Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) indicator for identifying recessions in real-time.Theme MusicPleading Ignorance, by Ed Kuepper, from the album Starstruck. Additional AudioToo Many Things, by Ed Kuepper, from the album Starstruck. Finding The Money (teaser) Fed Chair Jerome Powell: The 2024 60 Minutes Interview Monty Python Royal Society For Putting Things On Top of Other Things

It is our most sensational Letter from Bill Mitchell, yet! The gloves are off, and the hand-to-hand combat is more exciting than your average manga comic -- not least because our well-being is riding on it. Shownotes How Japan escaped neoliberalism and lived happily ever afterby Alan Kohlerpublished in The New Daily, 3rd December, 2023 Should Jim Chalmers adopt MMT to offer Swedish services with Swiss taxes?by Percy Allanpublished in Pearls and Irritations, 7th December 2023  Theme MusicPleading Ignorance, by Ed Kuepper, from the album Starstruck. Additional AudioToo Many Things, by Ed Kuepper, from the album Starstruck. Finding The Money, documentary teaser

"You can't un-see it" describes how it feels to be released from a misguided understanding about how money works. Once you understand how it is that the federal government of Australia can never run out of Australian dollars -- you can't un-see it. So many more revelations follow on from this. MMT is a paradigm shift that Christian and Patricia want to share with the world, via their podcast, The MMT Podcast. Show Notes Finding The Money, tickets for screenings in Australia, March 2024 The MMT Podcast, a podcast hosted by Christian Reilly & Patrica Pino, designed to demystify economics The MMT Podcast, patreon pageMacro N Cheese, a podcast hosted by Steve Grumbine, that explores the progressive movement through the lens of Modern Monetary Theory Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber William Mitchell - Modern Monetary Theory, blog by Professor Bill Mitchell We Can Have Nice Things, website of MMT resources The Gower Innitiative For Modern Money Studies, UK New Economic Perspectives, blog Modern Money Lab, courses on MMT and ecological economics Theme MusicPleading Ignorance, by Ed Kuepper, from the album Starstruck. Additional AudioToo Many Things, by Ed Kuepper, from the album Starstruck. Finding The Money, documentary teaser