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  • #200 Anything we can actually do, we can afford: The Anti-austerity Conference with Phil Armstrong (part 1)

    Patricia and Christian talk to Dr Phil Armstrong about recent events in the world of government budgeting, and the upcoming Anti-Austerity Conference on September 12th-13th.

    Full conversation here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/135071185?pr=true&cr=true

    Please help sustain this podcast!

    Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/MMTpodcast

    All our episodes in chronological order: https://www.patreon.com/posts/43111643

    All our patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/57542767

    LIVE EVENTS!

    The Anti-austerity Conference (Bristol and online)

    12th & 13th September: https://modernmoneylab.org.uk/events/bristol-conference-2025/

    Modern Money Lab seminars featuring Dr Steven Hail - "Public Money for Public Good: Why MMT Matters"

    • Amsterdam, 14th September
    • Sheffield 20th & 21st September
    • Vienna, 27th & 28th September

    All tickets: https://modernmoneylab.org.uk/events/

    JOIN PATRICIA'S MMT ACTIVIST NETWORK (MMT UK): https://actionnetwork.org/forms/activist-registration-form

    MMT: THE MOVIE!

    • "Finding The Money", a documentary by Maren Poitras featuring Stephanie Kelton is now available worldwide to rent or buy: https://findingthemoney.vhx.tv/products/finding-the-money
    • Updates on worldwide screenings of "Finding The Money" can be found here: https://findingmoneyfilm.com/where-to-watch/
    • To arrange a screening of "Finding The Money", apply here: https://findingmoneyfilm.com/host-a-screening/

    STUDY THE ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABILITY!

    • Details of Modern Money Lab's online graduate, postgraduate and standalone courses in economics are here: https://modernmoneylab.org.au/

    Relevant to this episode XXXXX:

    • "How to Fight Back Against the False Idea that the Government is at the Mercy of Financial Markets" by Sheridan Kates: https://thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/2025/3/10/scotonomics-monetary-autonomy
    • For more on the endogenous money view (the non-fringe, very mainstream view that bank loans create deposits, not the other way around), listen to episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318 and episode 43 - Sam Levey: Understanding Endogenous Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/35073683 XXXXX
    • For more on the (Liz) Trussageddon, listen to Episode 147 - Dirk Ehnts: Do Markets Control Our Politics?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-147-dirk-72906421
    • Episode 30 - Steven Hail: Understanding Government Bonds (Part 1) :https://www.patreon.com/posts/29621245
    • Episode 31 - Steven Hail: Understanding Government Bonds (Part 2): https://www.patreon.com/posts/29829500
    • "Federal Debt and Modern Money" by Steven Hail & David Joy: https://www.global-isp.org/wp-content/uploads/PN-121.pdf
    • "There is no need to issue public debt" by Bill Mitchell: https://billmitchell.org/blog/?p=31715
    • Episode 148 - Pavlina Tcherneva: Why The Job Guarantee Is Core To Modern Monetary Theory: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-148-why-73211346
    • Quick read: Pavlina Tcherneva's Job Guarantee FAQ page: https://pavlina-tcherneva.net/job-guarantee-faq/

    For an intro to MMT:

    • Our first three episodes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41742417
    • Episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318

    Quick MMT reads:

    • Warren's Mosler's MMT white paper: http://moslereconomics.com/mmt-white-paper/
    • Steven Hail's quick MMT explainer: https://theconversation.com/explainer-what-is-modern-monetary-theory-72095
    • Quick explanation of government debt and deficit: "Some Numbers Are Big. Let Me Help You Get Over It": https://christreilly.com/2020/02/17/some-numbers-are-big-let-me-help-you-get-over-it/

    For a short, non-technical, free ebook explaining MMT, download Warren Mosler's "7 Deadly Innocent Frauds Of Economic Policy" here: http://moslereconomics.com/wp-content/powerpoints/7DIF.pdf

    Episodes on monetary operations:

    • Episode 20 - Warren Mosler: The MMT Money Story (part 1): https://www.patreon.com/posts/28004824
    • Episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318
    • Episode 13 - Steven Hail: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Banking, But Were Afraid To Ask: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41790887
    • Episode 43 - Sam Levey: Understanding Endogenous Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/35073683
    • Episode 84 - Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye & Neil Wilson: An Accounting Model Of The UK Exchequer (Part 1): https://www.patreon.com/posts/46352183
    • Episode 86 - Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye & Neil Wilson: An Accounting Model Of The UK Exchequer (Part 2): https://www.patreon.com/posts/46865929

    For more on Quantitative Easing:

    • Episode 59 - Warren Mosler: What Do Central Banks Do?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/39070023
    • Episode 143 - Paul Sheard: What Is Quantitative Easing?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/71589989?pr=true

    Episodes on inflation:

    • Episode 7: Steven Hail: Inflation, Price Shocks and Other Misunderstandings: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41780508
    • Episode 65 - Phil Armstrong: Understanding Inflation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/40672678
    • Episode 104 - John T Harvey: Inflation, Stagflation & Healing The Nation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/52207835
    • Episode 123 - Warren Mosler: Understanding The Price Level And Inflation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/59856379
    • Episode 128 - L. Randall Wray & Yeva Nersisyan: What's Causing Accelerating Inflation? Pandemic Or Policy Response?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/63776558

    Our Job Guarantee episodes:

    • Episode 4 - Fadhel Kaboub: What is the Job Guarantee?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41742701
    • Episode 47 - Pavlina Tcherneva: Building Resilience - The Case For A Job Guarantee: https://www.patreon.com/posts/36034543
    • Episode 148 - Pavlina Tcherneva: Why The Job Guarantee Is Core To Modern Monetary Theory: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-148-why-73211346
    • Quick read: Pavlina Tcherneva's Job Guarantee FAQ page: https://pavlina-tcherneva.net/job-guarantee-faq/

    More on government bonds (and "vigilantes"):

    • Episode 30 - Steven Hail: Understanding Government Bonds (Part 1):https://www.patreon.com/posts/29621245
    • Episode 31 - Steven Hail: Understanding Government Bonds (Part 2): https://www.patreon.com/posts/29829500
    • Episode 143 - Paul Sheard: What Is Quantitative Easing?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/71589989?pr=true
    • Episode 147 - Dirk Ehnts: Do Markets Control Our Politics?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-147-dirk-72906421
    • Episode 144 - Warren Mosler: The Natural Rate Of Interest Is Zero: https://www.patreon.com/posts/71966513
    • Episode 145 - John T Harvey: What Determines Currency Prices?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/72283811?pr=true

    More on bank runs banking regulation:

    • Episode 162 - Warren Mosler: Anatomy Of A Bank Run: https://www.patreon.com/posts/80157783?pr=true
    • Episode 163 - L. Randall Wray: Breaking Banks - The Fed's Magical Monetarist Thinking Strikes Again: https://www.patreon.com/posts/80479169?pr=true
    • Episode 165 - Robert Hockett: Sparking An Industrial Renewal By Building Banks Better: https://www.patreon.com/posts/81084983?pr=true
    • MMT founder Warren Mosler's Proposals for the Treasury, the Federal Reserve, the FDIC, and the Banking System: https://neweconomicperspectives.org/2010/02/warren-moslers-proposals-for-treasury.html

    MMT Events And Courses:

    • More information about Professor Bill Mitchell's MMTed project (free public online courses in MMT) here: http://www.mmted.org/
    • Details of Modern Money Lab's online graduate and postgraduate courses in MMT and real-world economics are here: https://modernmoneylab.org.au/

    Order the Gower Initiative's "Modern Monetary Theory - Key Insights, Leading Thinkers": https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/modern-monetary-theory-9781802208085.html

    MMT Academic Resources compiled by The Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies: https://www.zotero.org/groups/2251544/mmt_academic_resources_-_compiled_by_the_gower_initiative_for_modern_money_studies

    MMT scholarship compiled by New Economic Perspectives: http://neweconomicperspectives.org/mmt-scholarship

    A list of MMT-informed campaigns and organisations worldwide: https://www.patreon.com/posts/47900757

    We are working towards full transcripts, but in the meantime, closed captions for all episodes are available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEp_nGVTuMfBun2wiG-c0Ew/videos

    50 min
  • #199 The Money Myths Fuelling Right-Wing Populism with Jakob Feinig

    Christian talks to Professor Jakob Feinig about how right-wing politics is bolstered by the myth that humans are part of a mechanism they can neither understand nor change - The Market - and the efforts to further its mystification, known as "monetary silencing".

    Please help sustain this podcast!

    Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/MMTpodcast

    All our episodes in chronological order: https://www.patreon.com/posts/43111643

    All our patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/57542767

    LIVE EVENTS!

    Modern Money Lab UK weekend seminars in London featuring Dr Steven Hail:

    • June 21st & 22nd (White City) - Rethinking Capitalism
    • June 28th & 29th (Finsbury Park) - Money, Government and the Public Interest - Beyond The Deficit Myth

    Details and tickets: https://modernmoneylab.org.uk/events/

    JOIN PATRICIA'S MMT ACTIVIST NETWORK (MMT UK): https://actionnetwork.org/forms/activist-registration-form

    MMT: THE MOVIE!

    • "Finding The Money", a documentary by Maren Poitras featuring Stephanie Kelton is now available worldwide to rent or buy: https://findingthemoney.vhx.tv/products/finding-the-money
    • Updates on worldwide screenings of "Finding The Money" can be found here: https://findingmoneyfilm.com/where-to-watch/
    • To arrange a screening of "Finding The Money", apply here: https://findingmoneyfilm.com/host-a-screening/

    STUDY THE ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABILITY!

    • Details of Modern Money Lab's online graduate, postgraduate and standalone courses in economics are here: https://modernmoneylab.org.au/

    Relevant to this episode:

    • "MAGA, the Job Guarantee, and Post-Neoliberal Public Knowledge" by Jakob Feinig: https://www.postneoliberalism.org/articles/maga-the-job-guarantee-and-post-neoliberal-public-knowledge/#primary
    • "Moral Economies of Money" by Jakob Feinig: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=33698
    • Money On The Left Collective: https://moneyontheleft.org/
    • Our episode 69 with Scott Ferguson & Maxx Seijo from Money On The Left - "The Choreographers of Credit" - on the "Uni" credit-issuance project: https://www.patreon.com/posts/42552289
    • "How to Fight Back Against the False Idea that the Government is at the Mercy of Financial Markets" by Sheridan Kates: https://thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/2025/3/10/scotonomics-monetary-autonomy
    • For more on the endogenous money view (the non-fringe, very mainstream view that bank loans create deposits, not the other way around), listen to episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318 and episode 43 - Sam Levey: Understanding Endogenous Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/35073683
    • For more on the (Liz) Trussageddon, listen to Episode 147 - Dirk Ehnts: Do Markets Control Our Politics?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-147-dirk-72906421

    For an intro to MMT:

    • Our first three episodes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41742417
    • Episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318

    Quick MMT reads:

    • Warren's Mosler's MMT white paper: http://moslereconomics.com/mmt-white-paper/
    • Steven Hail's quick MMT explainer: https://theconversation.com/explainer-what-is-modern-monetary-theory-72095
    • Quick explanation of government debt and deficit: "Some Numbers Are Big. Let Me Help You Get Over It": https://christreilly.com/2020/02/17/some-numbers-are-big-let-me-help-you-get-over-it/

    For a short, non-technical, free ebook explaining MMT, download Warren Mosler's "7 Deadly Innocent Frauds Of Economic Policy" here: http://moslereconomics.com/wp-content/powerpoints/7DIF.pdf

    Episodes on monetary operations:

    • Episode 20 - Warren Mosler: The MMT Money Story (part 1): https://www.patreon.com/posts/28004824
    • Episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318
    • Episode 13 - Steven Hail: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Banking, But Were Afraid To Ask: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41790887
    • Episode 43 - Sam Levey: Understanding Endogenous Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/35073683
    • Episode 84 - Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye & Neil Wilson: An Accounting Model Of The UK Exchequer (Part 1): https://www.patreon.com/posts/46352183
    • Episode 86 - Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye & Neil Wilson: An Accounting Model Of The UK Exchequer (Part 2): https://www.patreon.com/posts/46865929

    For more on Quantitative Easing:

    • Episode 59 - Warren Mosler: What Do Central Banks Do?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/39070023
    • Episode 143 - Paul Sheard: What Is Quantitative Easing?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/71589989?pr=true

    Episodes on inflation:

    • Episode 7: Steven Hail: Inflation, Price Shocks and Other Misunderstandings: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41780508
    • Episode 65 - Phil Armstrong: Understanding Inflation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/40672678
    • Episode 104 - John T Harvey: Inflation, Stagflation & Healing The Nation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/52207835
    • Episode 123 - Warren Mosler: Understanding The Price Level And Inflation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/59856379
    • Episode 128 - L. Randall Wray & Yeva Nersisyan: What's Causing Accelerating Inflation? Pandemic Or Policy Response?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/63776558

    Our Job Guarantee episodes:

    • Episode 4 - Fadhel Kaboub: What is the Job Guarantee?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41742701
    • Episode 47 - Pavlina Tcherneva: Building Resilience - The Case For A Job Guarantee: https://www.patreon.com/posts/36034543
    • Episode 148 - Pavlina Tcherneva: Why The Job Guarantee Is Core To Modern Monetary Theory: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-148-why-73211346
    • Quick read: Pavlina Tcherneva's Job Guarantee FAQ page: https://pavlina-tcherneva.net/job-guarantee-faq/

    More on government bonds (and "vigilantes"):

    • Episode 30 - Steven Hail: Understanding Government Bonds (Part 1):https://www.patreon.com/posts/29621245
    • Episode 31 - Steven Hail: Understanding Government Bonds (Part 2): https://www.patreon.com/posts/29829500
    • Episode 143 - Paul Sheard: What Is Quantitative Easing?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/71589989?pr=true
    • Episode 147 - Dirk Ehnts: Do Markets Control Our Politics?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-147-dirk-72906421
    • Episode 144 - Warren Mosler: The Natural Rate Of Interest Is Zero: https://www.patreon.com/posts/71966513
    • Episode 145 - John T Harvey: What Determines Currency Prices?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/72283811?pr=true

    More on bank runs banking regulation:

    • Episode 162 - Warren Mosler: Anatomy Of A Bank Run: https://www.patreon.com/posts/80157783?pr=true
    • Episode 163 - L. Randall Wray: Breaking Banks - The Fed's Magical Monetarist Thinking Strikes Again: https://www.patreon.com/posts/80479169?pr=true
    • Episode 165 - Robert Hockett: Sparking An Industrial Renewal By Building Banks Better: https://www.patreon.com/posts/81084983?pr=true
    • MMT founder Warren Mosler's Proposals for the Treasury, the Federal Reserve, the FDIC, and the Banking System: https://neweconomicperspectives.org/2010/02/warren-moslers-proposals-for-treasury.html

    MMT Events And Courses:

    • More information about Professor Bill Mitchell's MMTed project (free public online courses in MMT) here: http://www.mmted.org/
    • Details of Modern Money Lab's online graduate and postgraduate courses in MMT are here: https://modernmoneylab.org.au/

    Order the Gower Initiative's "Modern Monetary Theory - Key Insights, Leading Thinkers": https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/modern-monetary-theory-9781802208085.html

    MMT Academic Resources compiled by The Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies: https://www.zotero.org/groups/2251544/mmt_academic_resources_-_compiled_by_the_gower_initiative_for_modern_money_studies

    MMT scholarship compiled by New Economic Perspectives: http://neweconomicperspectives.org/mmt-scholarship

    A list of MMT-informed campaigns and organisations worldwide: https://www.patreon.com/posts/47900757

    We are working towards full transcripts, but in the meantime, closed captions for all episodes are available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEp_nGVTuMfBun2wiG-c0Ew/videos

    Show notes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-199-wing-131820648

    1 hr 3 min
  • #198 How Captured Economics Stole Our Future & What To Do About It with Katy Shields

    Patricia and Christian talk with recovering mainstream economist Katy Shields about the ways in which economists and their backers have warped global politics to the point where we and our life-sustaining planet have become secondary concerns to the primary goal of "growth".

    Please help sustain this podcast!

    Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/MMTpodcast

    All our episodes in chronological order: https://www.patreon.com/posts/43111643

    All our patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/57542767

    LIVE EVENTS!

    Modern Money Lab UK weekend seminars in London featuring Dr Steven Hail:

    • June 21st & 22nd (White City) - Rethinking Capitalism
    • June 28th & 29th (Finsbury Park) - Money, Government and the Public Interest - Beyond The Deficit Myth

    Details and tickets: https://modernmoneylab.org.uk/events/

    JOIN PATRICIA'S MMT ACTIVIST NETWORK (MMT UK): https://actionnetwork.org/forms/activist-registration-form

    MMT: THE MOVIE!

    • "Finding The Money", a documentary by Maren Poitras featuring Stephanie Kelton is now available worldwide to rent or buy: https://findingthemoney.vhx.tv/products/finding-the-money
    • Updates on worldwide screenings of "Finding The Money" can be found here: https://findingmoneyfilm.com/where-to-watch/
    • To arrange a screening of "Finding The Money", apply here: https://findingmoneyfilm.com/host-a-screening/

    STUDY THE ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABILITY!

    • Details of Modern Money Lab's online graduate, postgraduate and standalone courses in economics are here: https://modernmoneylab.org.au/

    Relevant to this episode:

    • "How captured economics stole our climate — and what we can do about it" by Katy Shields: https://medium.com/@katyrshields/how-captured-economics-stole-our-climate-and-what-we-can-do-about-it-f9070ba6ae93
    • Regenerative Economy Lab - upcoming workshops in July (Berlin), September (Vienna) and November (Vienna) 2025: https://gala-ebook-09756497.figma.site/
    • Beyond Growth Forum (Vienna) - 13 June 2025: https://www.global2000.at/events/beyond-growth-forum-2025
    • "Tipping Point: The True Story of the Limits to Growth" podcast by Katy Shields: https://tippingpoint-podcast.com/
    • "Rethinking My Economics" by Angus Deaton https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2024/03/Symposium-Rethinking-Economics-Angus-Deaton
    • Rethinking Economics - student campaign achievements" https://www.rethinkeconomics.org/impact/

    For an intro to MMT:

    • Our first three episodes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41742417
    • Episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318

    Quick MMT reads:

    • Warren's Mosler's MMT white paper: http://moslereconomics.com/mmt-white-paper/
    • Steven Hail's quick MMT explainer: https://theconversation.com/explainer-what-is-modern-monetary-theory-72095
    • Quick explanation of government debt and deficit: "Some Numbers Are Big. Let Me Help You Get Over It": https://christreilly.com/2020/02/17/some-numbers-are-big-let-me-help-you-get-over-it/

    For a short, non-technical, free ebook explaining MMT, download Warren Mosler's "7 Deadly Innocent Frauds Of Economic Policy" here: http://moslereconomics.com/wp-content/powerpoints/7DIF.pdf

    Episodes on monetary operations:

    • Episode 20 - Warren Mosler: The MMT Money Story (part 1): https://www.patreon.com/posts/28004824
    • Episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318
    • Episode 13 - Steven Hail: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Banking, But Were Afraid To Ask: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41790887
    • Episode 43 - Sam Levey: Understanding Endogenous Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/35073683
    • Episode 84 - Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye & Neil Wilson: An Accounting Model Of The UK Exchequer (Part 1): https://www.patreon.com/posts/46352183
    • Episode 86 - Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye & Neil Wilson: An Accounting Model Of The UK Exchequer (Part 2): https://www.patreon.com/posts/46865929

    For more on Quantitative Easing:

    • Episode 59 - Warren Mosler: What Do Central Banks Do?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/39070023
    • Episode 143 - Paul Sheard: What Is Quantitative Easing?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/71589989?pr=true

    Episodes on inflation:

    • Episode 7: Steven Hail: Inflation, Price Shocks and Other Misunderstandings: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41780508
    • Episode 65 - Phil Armstrong: Understanding Inflation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/40672678
    • Episode 104 - John T Harvey: Inflation, Stagflation & Healing The Nation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/52207835
    • Episode 123 - Warren Mosler: Understanding The Price Level And Inflation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/59856379
    • Episode 128 - L. Randall Wray & Yeva Nersisyan: What's Causing Accelerating Inflation? Pandemic Or Policy Response?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/63776558

    Our Job Guarantee episodes:

    • Episode 4 - Fadhel Kaboub: What is the Job Guarantee?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41742701
    • Episode 47 - Pavlina Tcherneva: Building Resilience - The Case For A Job Guarantee: https://www.patreon.com/posts/36034543
    • Episode 148 - Pavlina Tcherneva: Why The Job Guarantee Is Core To Modern Monetary Theory: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-148-why-73211346
    • Quick read: Pavlina Tcherneva's Job Guarantee FAQ page: https://pavlina-tcherneva.net/job-guarantee-faq/

    More on government bonds (and "vigilantes"):

    • Episode 30 - Steven Hail: Understanding Government Bonds (Part 1):https://www.patreon.com/posts/29621245
    • Episode 31 - Steven Hail: Understanding Government Bonds (Part 2): https://www.patreon.com/posts/29829500
    • Episode 143 - Paul Sheard: What Is Quantitative Easing?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/71589989?pr=true
    • Episode 147 - Dirk Ehnts: Do Markets Control Our Politics?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-147-dirk-72906421
    • Episode 144 - Warren Mosler: The Natural Rate Of Interest Is Zero: https://www.patreon.com/posts/71966513
    • Episode 145 - John T Harvey: What Determines Currency Prices?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/72283811?pr=true

    More on bank runs banking regulation:

    • Episode 162 - Warren Mosler: Anatomy Of A Bank Run: https://www.patreon.com/posts/80157783?pr=true
    • Episode 163 - L. Randall Wray: Breaking Banks - The Fed's Magical Monetarist Thinking Strikes Again: https://www.patreon.com/posts/80479169?pr=true
    • Episode 165 - Robert Hockett: Sparking An Industrial Renewal By Building Banks Better: https://www.patreon.com/posts/81084983?pr=true
    • MMT founder Warren Mosler's Proposals for the Treasury, the Federal Reserve, the FDIC, and the Banking System: https://neweconomicperspectives.org/2010/02/warren-moslers-proposals-for-treasury.html

    MMT Events And Courses:

    • More information about Professor Bill Mitchell's MMTed project (free public online courses in MMT) here: http://www.mmted.org/
    • Details of Modern Money Lab's online graduate and postgraduate courses in MMT are here: https://modernmoneylab.org.au/

    Order the Gower Initiative's "Modern Monetary Theory - Key Insights, Leading Thinkers": https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/modern-monetary-theory-9781802208085.html

    MMT Academic Resources compiled by The Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies: https://www.zotero.org/groups/2251544/mmt_academic_resources_-_compiled_by_the_gower_initiative_for_modern_money_studies

    MMT scholarship compiled by New Economic Perspectives: http://neweconomicperspectives.org/mmt-scholarship

    A list of MMT-informed campaigns and organisations worldwide: https://www.patreon.com/posts/47900757

    We are working towards full transcripts, but in the meantime, closed captions for all episodes are available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEp_nGVTuMfBun2wiG-c0Ew/videos

    Show notes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-198-how-130801058

    1 hr 5 min
  • #197 The Problem With Wealth Taxes with Steven Hail (part 2)

    Part 2: Patricia and Christian continue their conversation with economist, author, and founder of Modern Money Lab Professor Professor Steven Hail about the well-intentioned (taxing the rich is good!) but counter-productive call for a wealth tax to "fund" life-saving support for vulnerable people (needlessly waiting for the rich to cough up while people suffer and die is bad!) and, of course - those beautiful tariffs.

    Full conversation here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/126627127

    Please help sustain this podcast!

    Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/MMTpodcast

    All our episodes in chronological order: https://www.patreon.com/posts/43111643

    All our patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/57542767

    LIVE EVENTS!

    Modern Money Lab UK weekend seminars in London featuring Dr Steven Hail:

    • June 21st & 22nd (White City) - Rethinking Capitalism
    • June 28th & 29th (Finsbury Park) - Money, Government and the Public Interest - Beyond The Deficit Myth

    Details and tickets: https://modernmoneylab.org.uk/events/

    JOIN PATRICIA'S MMT ACTIVIST NETWORK (MMT UK): https://actionnetwork.org/forms/activist-registration-form

    MMT: THE MOVIE!

    • "Finding The Money", a documentary by Maren Poitras featuring Stephanie Kelton is now available worldwide to rent or buy: https://findingthemoney.vhx.tv/products/finding-the-money
    • Updates on worldwide screenings of "Finding The Money" can be found here: https://findingmoneyfilm.com/where-to-watch/
    • To arrange a screening of "Finding The Money", apply here: https://findingmoneyfilm.com/host-a-screening/

    STUDY THE ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABILITY!

    • Details of Modern Money Lab's online graduate, postgraduate and standalone courses in economics are here: https://modernmoneylab.org.au/

    Relevant to this episode:

    • Episode 30 - Steven Hail: Understanding Government Bonds (Part 1) :https://www.patreon.com/posts/29621245
    • Episode 31 - Steven Hail: Understanding Government Bonds (Part 2): https://www.patreon.com/posts/29829500
    • "Federal Debt and Modern Money" by Steven Hail & David Joy: https://www.global-isp.org/wp-content/uploads/PN-121.pdf
    • "There is no need to issue public debt" by Bill Mitchell: https://billmitchell.org/blog/?p=31715
    • "How to Fight Back Against the False Idea that the Government is at the Mercy of Financial Markets" by Sheridan Kates: https://thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/2025/3/10/scotonomics-monetary-autonomy
    • Lecture: "The CFA Franc and Monetary Sovereignty in Africa", by Dr Ndongo Samba Sylla: https://youtu.be/W3P14tpE70U?si=0Dv7dukz_bnQbIbN
    • "Who Is Ron Vara? The Truth Behind Peter Navarro's Fake Expert" by Brendon Beebe: https://brendonbeebe.substack.com/p/who-is-ron-vara-the-truth-behind
    • For more on the endogenous money view (the non-fringe, very mainstream view that bank loans create deposits, not the other way around), listen to episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318 and episode 43 - Sam Levey: Understanding Endogenous Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/35073683
    • For more on the (Liz) Trussageddon, listen to Episode 147 - Dirk Ehnts: Do Markets Control Our Politics?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-147-dirk-72906421

    For an intro to MMT:

    • Our first three episodes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41742417
    • Episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318

    Quick MMT reads:

    • Warren's Mosler's MMT white paper: http://moslereconomics.com/mmt-white-paper/
    • Steven Hail's quick MMT explainer: https://theconversation.com/explainer-what-is-modern-monetary-theory-72095
    • Quick explanation of government debt and deficit: "Some Numbers Are Big. Let Me Help You Get Over It": https://christreilly.com/2020/02/17/some-numbers-are-big-let-me-help-you-get-over-it/

    For a short, non-technical, free ebook explaining MMT, download Warren Mosler's "7 Deadly Innocent Frauds Of Economic Policy" here: http://moslereconomics.com/wp-content/powerpoints/7DIF.pdf

    Episodes on monetary operations:

    • Episode 20 - Warren Mosler: The MMT Money Story (part 1): https://www.patreon.com/posts/28004824
    • Episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318
    • Episode 13 - Steven Hail: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Banking, But Were Afraid To Ask: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41790887
    • Episode 43 - Sam Levey: Understanding Endogenous Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/35073683
    • Episode 84 - Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye & Neil Wilson: An Accounting Model Of The UK Exchequer (Part 1): https://www.patreon.com/posts/46352183
    • Episode 86 - Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye & Neil Wilson: An Accounting Model Of The UK Exchequer (Part 2): https://www.patreon.com/posts/46865929

    For more on Quantitative Easing:

    • Episode 59 - Warren Mosler: What Do Central Banks Do?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/39070023
    • Episode 143 - Paul Sheard: What Is Quantitative Easing?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/71589989?pr=true

    Episodes on inflation:

    • Episode 7: Steven Hail: Inflation, Price Shocks and Other Misunderstandings: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41780508
    • Episode 65 - Phil Armstrong: Understanding Inflation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/40672678
    • Episode 104 - John T Harvey: Inflation, Stagflation & Healing The Nation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/52207835
    • Episode 123 - Warren Mosler: Understanding The Price Level And Inflation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/59856379
    • Episode 128 - L. Randall Wray & Yeva Nersisyan: What's Causing Accelerating Inflation? Pandemic Or Policy Response?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/63776558

    Our Job Guarantee episodes:

    • Episode 4 - Fadhel Kaboub: What is the Job Guarantee?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41742701
    • Episode 47 - Pavlina Tcherneva: Building Resilience - The Case For A Job Guarantee: https://www.patreon.com/posts/36034543
    • Episode 148 - Pavlina Tcherneva: Why The Job Guarantee Is Core To Modern Monetary Theory: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-148-why-73211346
    • Quick read: Pavlina Tcherneva's Job Guarantee FAQ page: https://pavlina-tcherneva.net/job-guarantee-faq/

    More on government bonds (and "vigilantes"):

    • Episode 30 - Steven Hail: Understanding Government Bonds (Part 1):https://www.patreon.com/posts/29621245
    • Episode 31 - Steven Hail: Understanding Government Bonds (Part 2): https://www.patreon.com/posts/29829500
    • Episode 143 - Paul Sheard: What Is Quantitative Easing?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/71589989?pr=true
    • Episode 147 - Dirk Ehnts: Do Markets Control Our Politics?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-147-dirk-72906421
    • Episode 144 - Warren Mosler: The Natural Rate Of Interest Is Zero: https://www.patreon.com/posts/71966513
    • Episode 145 - John T Harvey: What Determines Currency Prices?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/72283811?pr=true

    More on bank runs banking regulation:

    • Episode 162 - Warren Mosler: Anatomy Of A Bank Run: https://www.patreon.com/posts/80157783?pr=true
    • Episode 163 - L. Randall Wray: Breaking Banks - The Fed's Magical Monetarist Thinking Strikes Again: https://www.patreon.com/posts/80479169?pr=true
    • Episode 165 - Robert Hockett: Sparking An Industrial Renewal By Building Banks Better: https://www.patreon.com/posts/81084983?pr=true
    • MMT founder Warren Mosler's Proposals for the Treasury, the Federal Reserve, the FDIC, and the Banking System: https://neweconomicperspectives.org/2010/02/warren-moslers-proposals-for-treasury.html

    MMT Events And Courses:

    • More information about Professor Bill Mitchell's MMTed project (free public online courses in MMT) here: http://www.mmted.org/
    • Details of Modern Money Lab's online graduate and postgraduate courses in MMT are here: https://modernmoneylab.org.au/

    Order the Gower Initiative's "Modern Monetary Theory - Key Insights, Leading Thinkers": https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/modern-monetary-theory-9781802208085.html

    MMT Academic Resources compiled by The Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies: https://www.zotero.org/groups/2251544/mmt_academic_resources_-_compiled_by_the_gower_initiative_for_modern_money_studies

    MMT scholarship compiled by New Economic Perspectives: http://neweconomicperspectives.org/mmt-scholarship

    A list of MMT-informed campaigns and organisations worldwide: https://www.patreon.com/posts/47900757

    We are working towards full transcripts, but in the meantime, closed captions for all episodes are available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEp_nGVTuMfBun2wiG-c0Ew/videos

    Show notes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-197-with-127904530

    1 hr 11 min
  • #196 The Problem With Wealth Taxes with Steven Hail (part 1)

    Part 1: Patricia and Christian talk with economist, author, and founder of Modern Money Lab Professor Steven Hail about the well-intentioned but counter-productive call for a wealth tax to "fund" vital support for vulnerable people.

    Full conversation here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/126627127

    Please help sustain this podcast!

    Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/MMTpodcast

    All our episodes in chronological order: https://www.patreon.com/posts/43111643

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    LIVE EVENTS!

    Modern Money Lab UK weekend seminars in London featuring Dr Steven Hail:

    • June 21st & 22nd (White City) - Rethinking Capitalism
    • June 28th & 29th (Finsbury Park) - Money, Government and the Public Interest - Beyond The Deficit Myth

    Details and tickets: https://modernmoneylab.org.uk/events/

    JOIN PATRICIA'S MMT ACTIVIST NETWORK (MMT UK): https://actionnetwork.org/forms/activist-registration-form

    MMT: THE MOVIE!

    • "Finding The Money", a documentary by Maren Poitras featuring Stephanie Kelton is now available worldwide to rent or buy: https://findingthemoney.vhx.tv/products/finding-the-money
    • Updates on worldwide screenings of "Finding The Money" can be found here: https://findingmoneyfilm.com/where-to-watch/
    • To arrange a screening of "Finding The Money", apply here: https://findingmoneyfilm.com/host-a-screening/

    STUDY THE ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABILITY!

    • Details of Modern Money Lab's online graduate, postgraduate and standalone courses in economics are here: https://modernmoneylab.org.au/

    Relevant to this episode:

    • Episode 30 - Steven Hail: Understanding Government Bonds (Part 1) :https://www.patreon.com/posts/29621245
    • Episode 31 - Steven Hail: Understanding Government Bonds (Part 2): https://www.patreon.com/posts/29829500
    • "Federal Debt and Modern Money" by Steven Hail & David Joy: https://www.global-isp.org/wp-content/uploads/PN-121.pdf
    • "There is no need to issue public debt" by Bill Mitchell: https://billmitchell.org/blog/?p=31715
    • "How to Fight Back Against the False Idea that the Government is at the Mercy of Financial Markets" by Sheridan Kates: https://thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/2025/3/10/scotonomics-monetary-autonomy
    • Lecture: "The CFA Franc and Monetary Sovereignty in Africa", by Dr Ndongo Samba Sylla: https://youtu.be/W3P14tpE70U?si=0Dv7dukz_bnQbIbN
    • "Who Is Ron Vara? The Truth Behind Peter Navarro's Fake Expert" by Brendon Beebe: https://brendonbeebe.substack.com/p/who-is-ron-vara-the-truth-behind
    • For more on the endogenous money view (the non-fringe, very mainstream view that bank loans create deposits, not the other way around), listen to episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318 and episode 43 - Sam Levey: Understanding Endogenous Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/35073683
    • For more on the (Liz) Trussageddon, listen to Episode 147 - Dirk Ehnts: Do Markets Control Our Politics?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-147-dirk-72906421

    For an intro to MMT:

    • Our first three episodes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41742417
    • Episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318

    Quick MMT reads:

    • Warren's Mosler's MMT white paper: http://moslereconomics.com/mmt-white-paper/
    • Steven Hail's quick MMT explainer: https://theconversation.com/explainer-what-is-modern-monetary-theory-72095
    • Quick explanation of government debt and deficit: "Some Numbers Are Big. Let Me Help You Get Over It": https://christreilly.com/2020/02/17/some-numbers-are-big-let-me-help-you-get-over-it/

    For a short, non-technical, free ebook explaining MMT, download Warren Mosler's "7 Deadly Innocent Frauds Of Economic Policy" here: http://moslereconomics.com/wp-content/powerpoints/7DIF.pdf

    Episodes on monetary operations:

    • Episode 20 - Warren Mosler: The MMT Money Story (part 1): https://www.patreon.com/posts/28004824
    • Episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318
    • Episode 13 - Steven Hail: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Banking, But Were Afraid To Ask: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41790887
    • Episode 43 - Sam Levey: Understanding Endogenous Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/35073683
    • Episode 84 - Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye & Neil Wilson: An Accounting Model Of The UK Exchequer (Part 1): https://www.patreon.com/posts/46352183
    • Episode 86 - Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye & Neil Wilson: An Accounting Model Of The UK Exchequer (Part 2): https://www.patreon.com/posts/46865929

    For more on Quantitative Easing:

    • Episode 59 - Warren Mosler: What Do Central Banks Do?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/39070023
    • Episode 143 - Paul Sheard: What Is Quantitative Easing?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/71589989?pr=true

    Episodes on inflation:

    • Episode 7: Steven Hail: Inflation, Price Shocks and Other Misunderstandings: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41780508
    • Episode 65 - Phil Armstrong: Understanding Inflation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/40672678
    • Episode 104 - John T Harvey: Inflation, Stagflation & Healing The Nation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/52207835
    • Episode 123 - Warren Mosler: Understanding The Price Level And Inflation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/59856379
    • Episode 128 - L. Randall Wray & Yeva Nersisyan: What's Causing Accelerating Inflation? Pandemic Or Policy Response?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/63776558

    Our Job Guarantee episodes:

    • Episode 4 - Fadhel Kaboub: What is the Job Guarantee?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41742701
    • Episode 47 - Pavlina Tcherneva: Building Resilience - The Case For A Job Guarantee: https://www.patreon.com/posts/36034543
    • Episode 148 - Pavlina Tcherneva: Why The Job Guarantee Is Core To Modern Monetary Theory: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-148-why-73211346
    • Quick read: Pavlina Tcherneva's Job Guarantee FAQ page: https://pavlina-tcherneva.net/job-guarantee-faq/

    More on government bonds (and "vigilantes"):

    • Episode 30 - Steven Hail: Understanding Government Bonds (Part 1):https://www.patreon.com/posts/29621245
    • Episode 31 - Steven Hail: Understanding Government Bonds (Part 2): https://www.patreon.com/posts/29829500
    • Episode 143 - Paul Sheard: What Is Quantitative Easing?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/71589989?pr=true
    • Episode 147 - Dirk Ehnts: Do Markets Control Our Politics?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-147-dirk-72906421
    • Episode 144 - Warren Mosler: The Natural Rate Of Interest Is Zero: https://www.patreon.com/posts/71966513
    • Episode 145 - John T Harvey: What Determines Currency Prices?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/72283811?pr=true

    More on bank runs banking regulation:

    • Episode 162 - Warren Mosler: Anatomy Of A Bank Run: https://www.patreon.com/posts/80157783?pr=true
    • Episode 163 - L. Randall Wray: Breaking Banks - The Fed's Magical Monetarist Thinking Strikes Again: https://www.patreon.com/posts/80479169?pr=true
    • Episode 165 - Robert Hockett: Sparking An Industrial Renewal By Building Banks Better: https://www.patreon.com/posts/81084983?pr=true
    • MMT founder Warren Mosler's Proposals for the Treasury, the Federal Reserve, the FDIC, and the Banking System: https://neweconomicperspectives.org/2010/02/warren-moslers-proposals-for-treasury.html

    MMT Events And Courses:

    • More information about Professor Bill Mitchell's MMTed project (free public online courses in MMT) here: http://www.mmted.org/
    • Details of Modern Money Lab's online graduate and postgraduate courses in MMT are here: https://modernmoneylab.org.au/

    Order the Gower Initiative's "Modern Monetary Theory - Key Insights, Leading Thinkers": https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/modern-monetary-theory-9781802208085.html

    MMT Academic Resources compiled by The Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies: https://www.zotero.org/groups/2251544/mmt_academic_resources_-_compiled_by_the_gower_initiative_for_modern_money_studies

    MMT scholarship compiled by New Economic Perspectives: http://neweconomicperspectives.org/mmt-scholarship

    A list of MMT-informed campaigns and organisations worldwide: https://www.patreon.com/posts/47900757

    We are working towards full transcripts, but in the meantime, closed captions for all episodes are available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEp_nGVTuMfBun2wiG-c0Ew/videos

    1 hr 3 min
  • #195 Capitalists Hate Capitalism with Cory Doctorow

    Patricia and Christian talk with author and activist Cory Doctorow about capitalism, culture and… [checks notes] marshmallows!

    Please help sustain this podcast!

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    TAKE ACTION ON DISABILITY RIGHTS:

    Find your MP: https://members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP

    Consultation on UK government "reforms" to benefits: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/pathways-to-work-reforming-benefits-and-support-to-get-britain-working-green-paper

    LIVE EVENTS!

    March 22nd & 23rd Scotonomics Festival of Economics: https://scotonomics.scot/event/

    SAVE THE DATES!

    Modern Money Lab UK weekend Seminars featuring Dr Steven Hail:

    June 21st & 22nd - Rethinking Capitalism

    June 28th & 29th - Money, Government and the Public Interest - Beyond The Deficit Myth

    Further details here: https://modernmoneylab.org.uk/events/

    JOIN PATRICIA'S MMT ACTIVIST NETWORK (MMT UK): https://actionnetwork.org/forms/activist-registration-form

    MMT: THE MOVIE!

    • "Finding The Money", a documentary by Maren Poitras featuring Stephanie Kelton is now available worldwide to rent or buy: https://findingthemoney.vhx.tv/products/finding-the-money
    • Updates on worldwide screenings of "Finding The Money" can be found here: https://findingmoneyfilm.com/where-to-watch/
    • To arrange a screening of "Finding The Money", apply here: https://findingmoneyfilm.com/host-a-screening/

    STUDY THE ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABILITY!

    • Details of Modern Money Lab's online graduate, postgraduate and standalone courses in economics are here: https://modernmoneylab.org.au/

    Relevant to this episode:

    • Buy Cory's Doctorow's latest book: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865908/picksandshovels/
    • Cory's daily blog: https://pluralistic.net/
    • Cory's live dates: https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/20/birchpunk/#upcoming
    • "What is money" by A. Mitchell-Innes: https://www.community-exchange.org/docs/what%20is%20money.htm
    • Episode 7: Steven Hail: Inflation, Price Shocks and Other Misunderstandings: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41780508
    • Episode 65 - Phil Armstrong: Understanding Inflation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/40672678
    • Episode 104 - John T Harvey: Inflation, Stagflation & Healing The Nation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/52207835
    • Episode 123 - Warren Mosler: Understanding The Price Level And Inflation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/59856379
    • Episode 128 - L. Randall Wray & Yeva Nersisyan: What's Causing Accelerating Inflation? Pandemic Or Policy Response?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/63776558

    For an intro to MMT:

    • Our first three episodes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41742417
    • Episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318

    Quick MMT reads:

    • Warren's Mosler's MMT white paper: http://moslereconomics.com/mmt-white-paper/
    • Steven Hail's quick MMT explainer: https://theconversation.com/explainer-what-is-modern-monetary-theory-72095
    • Quick explanation of government debt and deficit: "Some Numbers Are Big. Let Me Help You Get Over It": https://christreilly.com/2020/02/17/some-numbers-are-big-let-me-help-you-get-over-it/

    For a short, non-technical, free ebook explaining MMT, download Warren Mosler's "7 Deadly Innocent Frauds Of Economic Policy" here: http://moslereconomics.com/wp-content/powerpoints/7DIF.pdf

    Episodes on monetary operations:

    • Episode 20 - Warren Mosler: The MMT Money Story (part 1): https://www.patreon.com/posts/28004824
    • Episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318
    • Episode 13 - Steven Hail: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Banking, But Were Afraid To Ask: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41790887
    • Episode 43 - Sam Levey: Understanding Endogenous Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/35073683
    • Episode 84 - Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye & Neil Wilson: An Accounting Model Of The UK Exchequer (Part 1): https://www.patreon.com/posts/46352183
    • Episode 86 - Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye & Neil Wilson: An Accounting Model Of The UK Exchequer (Part 2): https://www.patreon.com/posts/46865929

    For more on Quantitative Easing:

    • Episode 59 - Warren Mosler: What Do Central Banks Do?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/39070023
    • Episode 143 - Paul Sheard: What Is Quantitative Easing?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/71589989?pr=true

    Episodes on inflation:

    • Episode 7: Steven Hail: Inflation, Price Shocks and Other Misunderstandings: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41780508
    • Episode 65 - Phil Armstrong: Understanding Inflation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/40672678
    • Episode 104 - John T Harvey: Inflation, Stagflation & Healing The Nation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/52207835
    • Episode 123 - Warren Mosler: Understanding The Price Level And Inflation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/59856379
    • Episode 128 - L. Randall Wray & Yeva Nersisyan: What's Causing Accelerating Inflation? Pandemic Or Policy Response?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/63776558

    Our Job Guarantee episodes:

    • Episode 4 - Fadhel Kaboub: What is the Job Guarantee?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41742701
    • Episode 47 - Pavlina Tcherneva: Building Resilience - The Case For A Job Guarantee: https://www.patreon.com/posts/36034543
    • Episode 148 - Pavlina Tcherneva: Why The Job Guarantee Is Core To Modern Monetary Theory: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-148-why-73211346
    • Quick read: Pavlina Tcherneva's Job Guarantee FAQ page: https://pavlina-tcherneva.net/job-guarantee-faq/

    More on government bonds (and "vigilantes"):

    • Episode 30 - Steven Hail: Understanding Government Bonds (Part 1):https://www.patreon.com/posts/29621245
    • Episode 31 - Steven Hail: Understanding Government Bonds (Part 2): https://www.patreon.com/posts/29829500
    • Episode 143 - Paul Sheard: What Is Quantitative Easing?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/71589989?pr=true
    • Episode 147 - Dirk Ehnts: Do Markets Control Our Politics?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-147-dirk-72906421
    • Episode 144 - Warren Mosler: The Natural Rate Of Interest Is Zero: https://www.patreon.com/posts/71966513
    • Episode 145 - John T Harvey: What Determines Currency Prices?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/72283811?pr=true

    More on bank runs banking regulation:

    • Episode 162 - Warren Mosler: Anatomy Of A Bank Run: https://www.patreon.com/posts/80157783?pr=true
    • Episode 163 - L. Randall Wray: Breaking Banks - The Fed's Magical Monetarist Thinking Strikes Again: https://www.patreon.com/posts/80479169?pr=true
    • Episode 165 - Robert Hockett: Sparking An Industrial Renewal By Building Banks Better: https://www.patreon.com/posts/81084983?pr=true
    • MMT founder Warren Mosler's Proposals for the Treasury, the Federal Reserve, the FDIC, and the Banking System: https://neweconomicperspectives.org/2010/02/warren-moslers-proposals-for-treasury.html

    MMT Events And Courses:

    • More information about Professor Bill Mitchell's MMTed project (free public online courses in MMT) here: http://www.mmted.org/
    • Details of Modern Money Lab's online graduate and postgraduate courses in MMT are here: https://modernmoneylab.org.au/

    Order the Gower Initiative's "Modern Monetary Theory - Key Insights, Leading Thinkers": https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/modern-monetary-theory-9781802208085.html

    MMT Academic Resources compiled by The Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies: https://www.zotero.org/groups/2251544/mmt_academic_resources_-_compiled_by_the_gower_initiative_for_modern_money_studies

    MMT scholarship compiled by New Economic Perspectives: http://neweconomicperspectives.org/mmt-scholarship

    A list of MMT-informed campaigns and organisations worldwide: https://www.patreon.com/posts/47900757

    We are working towards full transcripts, but in the meantime, closed captions for all episodes are available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEp_nGVTuMfBun2wiG-c0Ew/videos

    Show notes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/124913674?pr=true

    1 hr 20 min
  • #194 The Appallingly Bad Economics Of Elon Musk with Dr Dirk Ehnts

    Patricia and Christian talk with economist and author Dr Dirk Ehnts about Elon Musk's nonsensical ideas about how the money system works.

    Please help sustain this podcast!

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    LIVE EVENTS!

    March 22nd & 23rd Scotonomics Festival of Economics: https://scotonomics.scot/event/

    SAVE THE DATES!

    Modern Money Lab UK weekend Seminars featuring Dr Steven Hail:

    June 21st & 22nd - Rethinking Capitalism

    June 28th & 29th - Money, Government and the Public Interest - Beyond The Deficit Myth

    Further details unavailable at time of publication, but will appear on this link as and when they do: https://modernmoneylab.org.uk/

    JOIN PATRICIA'S MMT ACTIVIST NETWORK (MMT UK): https://actionnetwork.org/forms/activist-registration-form

    • "Finding The Money", a documentary by Maren Poitras featuring Stephanie Kelton is now available worldwide to rent or buy: https://findingthemoney.vhx.tv/products/finding-the-money
    • Updates on worldwide screenings of "Finding The Money" can be found here: https://findingmoneyfilm.com/where-to-watch/
    • To arrange a screening of "Finding The Money", apply here: https://findingmoneyfilm.com/host-a-screening/

    STUDY THE ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABILITY!

    • Details of Modern Money Lab's online graduate, postgraduate and standalone courses in economics are here: https://modernmoneylab.org.au/

    Relevant to this episode:

    • Episode 30 - Steven Hail: Understanding Government Bonds (Part 1) :https://www.patreon.com/posts/29621245
    • Episode 31 - Steven Hail: Understanding Government Bonds (Part 2): https://www.patreon.com/posts/29829500
    • "Federal Debt and Modern Money" by Steven Hail & David Joy: https://www.global-isp.org/wp-content/uploads/PN-121.pdf
    • "There is no need to issue public debt" by Bill Mitchell: https://billmitchell.org/blog/?p=31715
    • For more on the endogenous money view (the non-fringe, very mainstream view that bank loans create deposits, not the other way around), listen to episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318 and episode 43 - Sam Levey: Understanding Endogenous Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/35073683
    • Episode 147 - Dirk Ehnts: Do Markets Control Our Politics?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-147-dirk-72906421
    • Modern Money Theory: A Simple Guide to the Monetary System by Dirk Ehnts: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Modern-Money-Theory-Professional-Organizations-ebook/dp/B0CV7M25VT/

    For an intro to MMT:

    • Our first three episodes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41742417
    • Episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318

    Quick MMT reads:

    • Warren's Mosler's MMT white paper: http://moslereconomics.com/mmt-white-paper/
    • Steven Hail's quick MMT explainer: https://theconversation.com/explainer-what-is-modern-monetary-theory-72095
    • Quick explanation of government debt and deficit: "Some Numbers Are Big. Let Me Help You Get Over It": https://christreilly.com/2020/02/17/some-numbers-are-big-let-me-help-you-get-over-it/

    For a short, non-technical, free ebook explaining MMT, download Warren Mosler's "7 Deadly Innocent Frauds Of Economic Policy" here: http://moslereconomics.com/wp-content/powerpoints/7DIF.pdf

    Episodes on monetary operations:

    • Episode 20 - Warren Mosler: The MMT Money Story (part 1): https://www.patreon.com/posts/28004824
    • Episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318
    • Episode 13 - Steven Hail: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Banking, But Were Afraid To Ask: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41790887
    • Episode 43 - Sam Levey: Understanding Endogenous Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/35073683
    • Episode 84 - Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye & Neil Wilson: An Accounting Model Of The UK Exchequer (Part 1): https://www.patreon.com/posts/46352183
    • Episode 86 - Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye & Neil Wilson: An Accounting Model Of The UK Exchequer (Part 2): https://www.patreon.com/posts/46865929

    For more on Quantitative Easing:

    • Episode 59 - Warren Mosler: What Do Central Banks Do?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/39070023
    • Episode 143 - Paul Sheard: What Is Quantitative Easing?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/71589989?pr=true

    Episodes on inflation:

    • Episode 7: Steven Hail: Inflation, Price Shocks and Other Misunderstandings: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41780508
    • Episode 65 - Phil Armstrong: Understanding Inflation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/40672678
    • Episode 104 - John T Harvey: Inflation, Stagflation & Healing The Nation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/52207835
    • Episode 123 - Warren Mosler: Understanding The Price Level And Inflation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/59856379
    • Episode 128 - L. Randall Wray & Yeva Nersisyan: What's Causing Accelerating Inflation? Pandemic Or Policy Response?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/63776558

    Our Job Guarantee episodes:

    • Episode 4 - Fadhel Kaboub: What is the Job Guarantee?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41742701
    • Episode 47 - Pavlina Tcherneva: Building Resilience - The Case For A Job Guarantee: https://www.patreon.com/posts/36034543
    • Episode 148 - Pavlina Tcherneva: Why The Job Guarantee Is Core To Modern Monetary Theory: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-148-why-73211346
    • Quick read: Pavlina Tcherneva's Job Guarantee FAQ page: https://pavlina-tcherneva.net/job-guarantee-faq/

    More on government bonds (and "vigilantes"):

    • Episode 30 - Steven Hail: Understanding Government Bonds (Part 1):https://www.patreon.com/posts/29621245
    • Episode 31 - Steven Hail: Understanding Government Bonds (Part 2): https://www.patreon.com/posts/29829500
    • Episode 143 - Paul Sheard: What Is Quantitative Easing?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/71589989?pr=true
    • Episode 147 - Dirk Ehnts: Do Markets Control Our Politics?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-147-dirk-72906421
    • Episode 144 - Warren Mosler: The Natural Rate Of Interest Is Zero: https://www.patreon.com/posts/71966513
    • Episode 145 - John T Harvey: What Determines Currency Prices?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/72283811?pr=true

    More on bank runs banking regulation:

    • Episode 162 - Warren Mosler: Anatomy Of A Bank Run: https://www.patreon.com/posts/80157783?pr=true
    • Episode 163 - L. Randall Wray: Breaking Banks - The Fed's Magical Monetarist Thinking Strikes Again: https://www.patreon.com/posts/80479169?pr=true
    • Episode 165 - Robert Hockett: Sparking An Industrial Renewal By Building Banks Better: https://www.patreon.com/posts/81084983?pr=true
    • MMT founder Warren Mosler's Proposals for the Treasury, the Federal Reserve, the FDIC, and the Banking System: https://neweconomicperspectives.org/2010/02/warren-moslers-proposals-for-treasury.html

    MMT Events And Courses:

    • More information about Professor Bill Mitchell's MMTed project (free public online courses in MMT) here: http://www.mmted.org/
    • Details of Modern Money Lab's online graduate and postgraduate courses in MMT are here: https://modernmoneylab.org.au/

    Order the Gower Initiative's "Modern Monetary Theory - Key Insights, Leading Thinkers": https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/modern-monetary-theory-9781802208085.html

    MMT Academic Resources compiled by The Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies: https://www.zotero.org/groups/2251544/mmt_academic_resources_-_compiled_by_the_gower_initiative_for_modern_money_studies

    MMT scholarship compiled by New Economic Perspectives: http://neweconomicperspectives.org/mmt-scholarship

    A list of MMT-informed campaigns and organisations worldwide: https://www.patreon.com/posts/47900757

    We are working towards full transcripts, but in the meantime, closed captions for all episodes are available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEp_nGVTuMfBun2wiG-c0Ew/videos

    Show notes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/124280013?pr=true

    1 hr 29 min
  • #193 The Fauxbel Prize: Top Lies In Economics 2024 with Dr Phil Armstrong (part 2)

    Part 2: Patricia and Christian continue their conversation with economist and author Dr Phil Armstrong about the least useful pieces of economic coverage from 2024.

    This episode:

    7) "Markets are natural!"

    8) "Banks create all the money!"

    9) Labour's Fiscal rule

    10) "The government is helpless!"

    Full conversation here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-only-top-119833826

    Please help sustain this podcast!

    Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/MMTpodcast

    All our episodes in chronological order: https://www.patreon.com/posts/43111643

    All our patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/57542767

    • "Finding The Money", a documentary by Maren Poitras featuring Stephanie Kelton is now available worldwide to rent or buy: https://findingthemoney.vhx.tv/products/finding-the-money
    • Updates on worldwide screenings of "Finding The Money" can be found here: https://findingmoneyfilm.com/where-to-watch/
    • To arrange a screening of "Finding The Money", apply here: https://findingmoneyfilm.com/host-a-screening/

    STUDY THE ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABILITY!

    • Details of Modern Money Lab's online graduate, postgraduate and standalone courses in economics are here: https://modernmoneylab.org.au/

    Relevant to this episode:

    • Episode 30 - Steven Hail: Understanding Government Bonds (Part 1) :https://www.patreon.com/posts/29621245
    • Episode 31 - Steven Hail: Understanding Government Bonds (Part 2): https://www.patreon.com/posts/29829500
    • "Federal Debt and Modern Money" by Steven Hail & David Joy: https://www.global-isp.org/wp-content/uploads/PN-121.pdf
    • "There is no need to issue public debt" by Bill Mitchell: https://billmitchell.org/blog/?p=31715
    • For more on the endogenous money view (the non-fringe, very mainstream view that bank loans create deposits, not the other way around), listen to episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318 and episode 43 - Sam Levey: Understanding Endogenous Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/35073683
    • Episode 147 - Dirk Ehnts: Do Markets Control Our Politics?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-147-dirk-72906421
    • Episode 167 - Richard Tye: The Bank of England - The Prequel: https://www.patreon.com/posts/81601103?pr=true

    For an intro to MMT:

    • Our first three episodes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41742417
    • Episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318

    Quick MMT reads:

    • Warren's Mosler's MMT white paper: http://moslereconomics.com/mmt-white-paper/
    • Steven Hail's quick MMT explainer: https://theconversation.com/explainer-what-is-modern-monetary-theory-72095
    • Quick explanation of government debt and deficit: "Some Numbers Are Big. Let Me Help You Get Over It": https://christreilly.com/2020/02/17/some-numbers-are-big-let-me-help-you-get-over-it/

    For a short, non-technical, free ebook explaining MMT, download Warren Mosler's "7 Deadly Innocent Frauds Of Economic Policy" here: http://moslereconomics.com/wp-content/powerpoints/7DIF.pdf

    Episodes on monetary operations:

    • Episode 20 - Warren Mosler: The MMT Money Story (part 1): https://www.patreon.com/posts/28004824
    • Episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318
    • Episode 13 - Steven Hail: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Banking, But Were Afraid To Ask: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41790887
    • Episode 43 - Sam Levey: Understanding Endogenous Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/35073683
    • Episode 84 - Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye & Neil Wilson: An Accounting Model Of The UK Exchequer (Part 1): https://www.patreon.com/posts/46352183
    • Episode 86 - Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye & Neil Wilson: An Accounting Model Of The UK Exchequer (Part 2): https://www.patreon.com/posts/46865929

    For more on Quantitative Easing:

    • Episode 59 - Warren Mosler: What Do Central Banks Do?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/39070023
    • Episode 143 - Paul Sheard: What Is Quantitative Easing?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/71589989?pr=true

    Episodes on inflation:

    • Episode 7: Steven Hail: Inflation, Price Shocks and Other Misunderstandings: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41780508
    • Episode 65 - Phil Armstrong: Understanding Inflation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/40672678
    • Episode 104 - John T Harvey: Inflation, Stagflation & Healing The Nation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/52207835
    • Episode 123 - Warren Mosler: Understanding The Price Level And Inflation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/59856379
    • Episode 128 - L. Randall Wray & Yeva Nersisyan: What's Causing Accelerating Inflation? Pandemic Or Policy Response?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/63776558

    Our Job Guarantee episodes:

    • Episode 4 - Fadhel Kaboub: What is the Job Guarantee?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41742701
    • Episode 47 - Pavlina Tcherneva: Building Resilience - The Case For A Job Guarantee: https://www.patreon.com/posts/36034543
    • Episode 148 - Pavlina Tcherneva: Why The Job Guarantee Is Core To Modern Monetary Theory: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-148-why-73211346
    • Quick read: Pavlina Tcherneva's Job Guarantee FAQ page: https://pavlina-tcherneva.net/job-guarantee-faq/

    More on government bonds (and "vigilantes"):

    • Episode 30 - Steven Hail: Understanding Government Bonds (Part 1):https://www.patreon.com/posts/29621245
    • Episode 31 - Steven Hail: Understanding Government Bonds (Part 2): https://www.patreon.com/posts/29829500
    • Episode 143 - Paul Sheard: What Is Quantitative Easing?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/71589989?pr=true
    • Episode 147 - Dirk Ehnts: Do Markets Control Our Politics?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-147-dirk-72906421
    • Episode 144 - Warren Mosler: The Natural Rate Of Interest Is Zero: https://www.patreon.com/posts/71966513
    • Episode 145 - John T Harvey: What Determines Currency Prices?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/72283811?pr=true

    More on bank runs banking regulation:

    • Episode 162 - Warren Mosler: Anatomy Of A Bank Run: https://www.patreon.com/posts/80157783?pr=true
    • Episode 163 - L. Randall Wray: Breaking Banks - The Fed's Magical Monetarist Thinking Strikes Again: https://www.patreon.com/posts/80479169?pr=true
    • Episode 165 - Robert Hockett: Sparking An Industrial Renewal By Building Banks Better: https://www.patreon.com/posts/81084983?pr=true
    • MMT founder Warren Mosler's Proposals for the Treasury, the Federal Reserve, the FDIC, and the Banking System: https://neweconomicperspectives.org/2010/02/warren-moslers-proposals-for-treasury.html

    MMT Events And Courses:

    • More information about Professor Bill Mitchell's MMTed project (free public online courses in MMT) here: http://www.mmted.org/
    • Details of Modern Money Lab's online graduate and postgraduate courses in MMT are here: https://modernmoneylab.org.au/

    Order the Gower Initiative's "Modern Monetary Theory - Key Insights, Leading Thinkers": https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/modern-monetary-theory-9781802208085.html

    MMT Academic Resources compiled by The Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies: https://www.zotero.org/groups/2251544/mmt_academic_resources_-_compiled_by_the_gower_initiative_for_modern_money_studies

    MMT scholarship compiled by New Economic Perspectives: http://neweconomicperspectives.org/mmt-scholarship

    A list of MMT-informed campaigns and organisations worldwide: https://www.patreon.com/posts/47900757

    We are working towards full transcripts, but in the meantime, closed captions for all episodes are available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEp_nGVTuMfBun2wiG-c0Ew/videos

    Show notes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-193-top-120962598

    55 min
  • #192 The Fauxbel Prize: Top Lies In Economics 2024 with Dr Phil Armstrong (part 1)

    Patricia and Christian talk with economist and author Dr Phil Armstrong about the least useful pieces of economic coverage from 2024.

    This episode:

    1. "The fiscal black hole!"
    2. "Taxpayer money!"
    3. "Government 'borrowing!'"
    4. "Bond vigilantes!"

    More to follow in part 2.

    Full episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-only-top-119833826

    Please help sustain this podcast!

    Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/MMTpodcast

    All our episodes in chronological order: https://www.patreon.com/posts/43111643

    All our patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/57542767

    • "Finding The Money", a documentary by Maren Poitras featuring Stephanie Kelton is now available worldwide to rent or buy: https://findingthemoney.vhx.tv/products/finding-the-money
    • Updates on worldwide screenings of "Finding The Money" can be found here: https://findingmoneyfilm.com/where-to-watch/
    • To arrange a screening of "Finding The Money", apply here: https://findingmoneyfilm.com/host-a-screening/

    STUDY THE ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABILITY!

    • Details of Modern Money Lab's online graduate, postgraduate and standalone courses in economics are here: https://modernmoneylab.org.au/

    Relevant to this episode:

    • Episode 30 - Steven Hail: Understanding Government Bonds (Part 1) :https://www.patreon.com/posts/29621245
    • Episode 31 - Steven Hail: Understanding Government Bonds (Part 2): https://www.patreon.com/posts/29829500
    • "Federal Debt and Modern Money" by Steven Hail & David Joy: https://www.global-isp.org/wp-content/uploads/PN-121.pdf
    • "There is no need to issue public debt" by Bill Mitchell: https://billmitchell.org/blog/?p=31715
    • For more on the endogenous money view (the non-fringe, very mainstream view that bank loans create deposits, not the other way around), listen to episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318 and episode 43 - Sam Levey: Understanding Endogenous Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/35073683
    • Episode 147 - Dirk Ehnts: Do Markets Control Our Politics?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-147-dirk-72906421
    • Episode 167 - Richard Tye: The Bank of England - The Prequel: https://www.patreon.com/posts/81601103?pr=true

    For an intro to MMT:

    • Our first three episodes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41742417
    • Episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318

    Quick MMT reads:

    • Warren's Mosler's MMT white paper: http://moslereconomics.com/mmt-white-paper/
    • Steven Hail's quick MMT explainer: https://theconversation.com/explainer-what-is-modern-monetary-theory-72095
    • Quick explanation of government debt and deficit: "Some Numbers Are Big. Let Me Help You Get Over It": https://christreilly.com/2020/02/17/some-numbers-are-big-let-me-help-you-get-over-it/

    For a short, non-technical, free ebook explaining MMT, download Warren Mosler's "7 Deadly Innocent Frauds Of Economic Policy" here: http://moslereconomics.com/wp-content/powerpoints/7DIF.pdf

    Episodes on monetary operations:

    • Episode 20 - Warren Mosler: The MMT Money Story (part 1): https://www.patreon.com/posts/28004824
    • Episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318
    • Episode 13 - Steven Hail: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Banking, But Were Afraid To Ask: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41790887
    • Episode 43 - Sam Levey: Understanding Endogenous Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/35073683
    • Episode 84 - Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye & Neil Wilson: An Accounting Model Of The UK Exchequer (Part 1): https://www.patreon.com/posts/46352183
    • Episode 86 - Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye & Neil Wilson: An Accounting Model Of The UK Exchequer (Part 2): https://www.patreon.com/posts/46865929

    For more on Quantitative Easing:

    • Episode 59 - Warren Mosler: What Do Central Banks Do?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/39070023
    • Episode 143 - Paul Sheard: What Is Quantitative Easing?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/71589989?pr=true

    Episodes on inflation:

    • Episode 7: Steven Hail: Inflation, Price Shocks and Other Misunderstandings: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41780508
    • Episode 65 - Phil Armstrong: Understanding Inflation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/40672678
    • Episode 104 - John T Harvey: Inflation, Stagflation & Healing The Nation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/52207835
    • Episode 123 - Warren Mosler: Understanding The Price Level And Inflation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/59856379
    • Episode 128 - L. Randall Wray & Yeva Nersisyan: What's Causing Accelerating Inflation? Pandemic Or Policy Response?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/63776558

    Our Job Guarantee episodes:

    • Episode 4 - Fadhel Kaboub: What is the Job Guarantee?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41742701
    • Episode 47 - Pavlina Tcherneva: Building Resilience - The Case For A Job Guarantee: https://www.patreon.com/posts/36034543
    • Episode 148 - Pavlina Tcherneva: Why The Job Guarantee Is Core To Modern Monetary Theory: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-148-why-73211346
    • Quick read: Pavlina Tcherneva's Job Guarantee FAQ page: https://pavlina-tcherneva.net/job-guarantee-faq/

    More on government bonds (and "vigilantes"):

    • Episode 30 - Steven Hail: Understanding Government Bonds (Part 1):https://www.patreon.com/posts/29621245
    • Episode 31 - Steven Hail: Understanding Government Bonds (Part 2): https://www.patreon.com/posts/29829500
    • Episode 143 - Paul Sheard: What Is Quantitative Easing?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/71589989?pr=true
    • Episode 147 - Dirk Ehnts: Do Markets Control Our Politics?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-147-dirk-72906421
    • Episode 144 - Warren Mosler: The Natural Rate Of Interest Is Zero: https://www.patreon.com/posts/71966513
    • Episode 145 - John T Harvey: What Determines Currency Prices?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/72283811?pr=true

    More on bank runs banking regulation:

    • Episode 162 - Warren Mosler: Anatomy Of A Bank Run: https://www.patreon.com/posts/80157783?pr=true
    • Episode 163 - L. Randall Wray: Breaking Banks - The Fed's Magical Monetarist Thinking Strikes Again: https://www.patreon.com/posts/80479169?pr=true
    • Episode 165 - Robert Hockett: Sparking An Industrial Renewal By Building Banks Better: https://www.patreon.com/posts/81084983?pr=true
    • MMT founder Warren Mosler's Proposals for the Treasury, the Federal Reserve, the FDIC, and the Banking System: https://neweconomicperspectives.org/2010/02/warren-moslers-proposals-for-treasury.html

    MMT Events And Courses:

    • More information about Professor Bill Mitchell's MMTed project (free public online courses in MMT) here: http://www.mmted.org/
    • Details of Modern Money Lab's online graduate and postgraduate courses in MMT are here: https://modernmoneylab.org.au/

    Order the Gower Initiative's "Modern Monetary Theory - Key Insights, Leading Thinkers": https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/modern-monetary-theory-9781802208085.html

    MMT Academic Resources compiled by The Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies: https://www.zotero.org/groups/2251544/mmt_academic_resources_-_compiled_by_the_gower_initiative_for_modern_money_studies

    MMT scholarship compiled by New Economic Perspectives: http://neweconomicperspectives.org/mmt-scholarship

    A list of MMT-informed campaigns and organisations worldwide: https://www.patreon.com/posts/47900757

    We are working towards full transcripts, but in the meantime, closed captions for all episodes are available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEp_nGVTuMfBun2wiG-c0Ew/videos

    Show notes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/120192465

    58 min
  • #191 Steven Hail: What is Rachel Reeves thinking?

    Patricia and Christian talk to economist and author Professor Steven Hail about how Chancellor Rachel Reeves' views on government spending have changed since 2010.

    Please help sustain this podcast!

    Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/MMTpodcast

    All our episodes in chronological order: https://www.patreon.com/posts/43111643

    All our patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/57542767

    NEWSFLASH!

    • "Finding The Money", a documentary by Maren Poitras featuring Stephanie Kelton is now available worldwide to rent or buy: https://findingthemoney.vhx.tv/products/finding-the-money
    • Updates on worldwide screenings of "Finding The Money" can be found here: https://findingmoneyfilm.com/where-to-watch/
    • To arrange a screening of "Finding The Money", apply here: https://findingmoneyfilm.com/host-a-screening/

    STUDY THE ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABILITY!

    • Details of Modern Money Lab's online graduate, postgraduate and standalone courses in economics are here: https://modernmoneylab.org.au/

    Relevant to this episode:

    • "The politics of the deficit" by Rachel Reeves: https://renewal.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/renewal_autumn_2010_reeves_deficit-1.pdf
    • "Think About Minsky for a Moment" by Stephanie Kelton: https://stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/think-about-minsky-for-a-moment
    • "This budget, amid talk of deficits, consider the lessons we ought to have learned" by Steven Hail https://theconversation.com/this-budget-amid-talk-of-deficits-consider-the-lessons-we-ought-to-have-learned-179310
    • Modern Money Lab YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@modernmoneylab5119
    • Episode 30 - Steven Hail: Understanding Government Bonds (Part 1) :https://www.patreon.com/posts/29621245
    • Episode 31 - Steven Hail: Understanding Government Bonds (Part 2): https://www.patreon.com/posts/29829500
    • "Federal Debt and Modern Money" by Steven Hail & David Joy: https://www.global-isp.org/wp-content/uploads/PN-121.pdf
    • For more on sectoral balances - "Why Are Democrats Bragging About Plunging the Private Sector into Deficit?" by Stephanie Kelton: https://stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/why-are-democrats-bragging-about?utm_source=publication-search
    • For more on the MMT Job Guarantee, read Pavlina Tcherneva's Job Guarantee FAQ page: https://pavlina-tcherneva.net/job-guarantee-faq/

    For an intro to MMT:

    • Our first three episodes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41742417
    • Episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318

    Quick MMT reads:

    • Warren's Mosler's MMT white paper: http://moslereconomics.com/mmt-white-paper/
    • Steven Hail's quick MMT explainer: https://theconversation.com/explainer-what-is-modern-monetary-theory-72095
    • Quick explanation of government debt and deficit: "Some Numbers Are Big. Let Me Help You Get Over It": https://christreilly.com/2020/02/17/some-numbers-are-big-let-me-help-you-get-over-it/

    For a short, non-technical, free ebook explaining MMT, download Warren Mosler's "7 Deadly Innocent Frauds Of Economic Policy" here: http://moslereconomics.com/wp-content/powerpoints/7DIF.pdf

    Episodes on monetary operations:

    • Episode 20 - Warren Mosler: The MMT Money Story (part 1): https://www.patreon.com/posts/28004824
    • Episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318
    • Episode 13 - Steven Hail: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Banking, But Were Afraid To Ask: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41790887
    • Episode 43 - Sam Levey: Understanding Endogenous Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/35073683
    • Episode 84 - Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye & Neil Wilson: An Accounting Model Of The UK Exchequer (Part 1): https://www.patreon.com/posts/46352183
    • Episode 86 - Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye & Neil Wilson: An Accounting Model Of The UK Exchequer (Part 2): https://www.patreon.com/posts/46865929

    For more on Quantitative Easing:

    • Episode 59 - Warren Mosler: What Do Central Banks Do?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/39070023
    • Episode 143 - Paul Sheard: What Is Quantitative Easing?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/71589989?pr=true

    Episodes on inflation:

    • Episode 7: Steven Hail: Inflation, Price Shocks and Other Misunderstandings: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41780508
    • Episode 65 - Phil Armstrong: Understanding Inflation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/40672678
    • Episode 104 - John T Harvey: Inflation, Stagflation & Healing The Nation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/52207835
    • Episode 123 - Warren Mosler: Understanding The Price Level And Inflation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/59856379
    • Episode 128 - L. Randall Wray & Yeva Nersisyan: What's Causing Accelerating Inflation? Pandemic Or Policy Response?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/63776558

    Our Job Guarantee episodes:

    • Episode 4 - Fadhel Kaboub: What is the Job Guarantee?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41742701
    • Episode 47 - Pavlina Tcherneva: Building Resilience - The Case For A Job Guarantee: https://www.patreon.com/posts/36034543
    • Episode 148 - Pavlina Tcherneva: Why The Job Guarantee Is Core To Modern Monetary Theory: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-148-why-73211346
    • Quick read: Pavlina Tcherneva's Job Guarantee FAQ page: https://pavlina-tcherneva.net/job-guarantee-faq/

    More on government bonds (and "vigilantes"):

    • Episode 30 - Steven Hail: Understanding Government Bonds (Part 1):https://www.patreon.com/posts/29621245
    • Episode 31 - Steven Hail: Understanding Government Bonds (Part 2): https://www.patreon.com/posts/29829500
    • Episode 143 - Paul Sheard: What Is Quantitative Easing?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/71589989?pr=true
    • Episode 147 - Dirk Ehnts: Do Markets Control Our Politics?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-147-dirk-72906421
    • Episode 144 - Warren Mosler: The Natural Rate Of Interest Is Zero: https://www.patreon.com/posts/71966513
    • Episode 145 - John T Harvey: What Determines Currency Prices?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/72283811?pr=true

    More on bank runs banking regulation:

    • Episode 162 - Warren Mosler: Anatomy Of A Bank Run: https://www.patreon.com/posts/80157783?pr=true
    • Episode 163 - L. Randall Wray: Breaking Banks - The Fed's Magical Monetarist Thinking Strikes Again: https://www.patreon.com/posts/80479169?pr=true
    • Episode 165 - Robert Hockett: Sparking An Industrial Renewal By Building Banks Better: https://www.patreon.com/posts/81084983?pr=true
    • MMT founder Warren Mosler's Proposals for the Treasury, the Federal Reserve, the FDIC, and the Banking System: https://neweconomicperspectives.org/2010/02/warren-moslers-proposals-for-treasury.html

    MMT Events And Courses:

    • More information about Professor Bill Mitchell's MMTed project (free public online courses in MMT) here: http://www.mmted.org/
    • Details of Modern Money Lab's online graduate and postgraduate courses in MMT are here: https://modernmoneylab.org.au/

    Order the Gower Initiative's "Modern Monetary Theory - Key Insights, Leading Thinkers": https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/modern-monetary-theory-9781802208085.html

    MMT Academic Resources compiled by The Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies: https://www.zotero.org/groups/2251544/mmt_academic_resources_-_compiled_by_the_gower_initiative_for_modern_money_studies

    MMT scholarship compiled by New Economic Perspectives: http://neweconomicperspectives.org/mmt-scholarship

    A list of MMT-informed campaigns and organisations worldwide: https://www.patreon.com/posts/47900757

    We are working towards full transcripts, but in the meantime, closed captions for all episodes are available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEp_nGVTuMfBun2wiG-c0Ew/videos

    Show notes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/113755872

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The MMT Podcast offers economic analysis on current issues from a Modern Monetary Theory perspective. Aimed at anyone who has ever felt lost in the jargon used by mainstream economics commentators. We believe economics is for everyone.

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