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/…

Patricia and Christian talk with economist and author Dr Phil Armstrong about the least useful pieces of economic coverage from 2024. This episode: “The fiscal black hole!” “Taxpayer money!” “Government ‘borrowing!’” “Bond vigilantes!” More to follow in part 2. Full episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-only-top-119833826 Please help s…

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://w…

Part 2: Dr Sam Levey answers listener questions about the mechanics of the monetary system. Full conversation available here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-only-sam-105296626 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 chronologica…

Part 1: Dr Sam Levey answers listener questions about the mechanics of the monetary system. Full conversation available here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-only-sam-105296626 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 chronologica…

What every voter needs to know: Patricia and Christian talk to economist and author of “MMT: A Simple Guide to the Monetary System”, Dr Dirk Ehnts about the upcoming UK election and what’s missing from media coverage. Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/MMTpodc…

Part 2: Christian talks to Dr Phil Armstrong about his recent paper: “History and origin of money in MMT and Austrian Economics: The difference methodology makes?” Part 1: https://www.patreon.com/posts/102761654?pr=true Full conversation available here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/95846517?pr=true Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get ear…

Part 1: Christian talks to Dr Phil Armstrong about his recent paper: “History and origin of money in MMT and Austrian Economics: The difference methodology makes?” Full conversation available here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/95846517?pr=true Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes: http…

Patricia and Christian talk to Dr Dirk Ehnts about the origins and nature of money, and what it means for tackling our various planetary emergencies. 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…

STOP PRESS! FOR OUR AUSTRALIAN PALS - THE “FINDING THE MONEY” FILM TOUR STARTS THIS WEEK - AS IN 27TH OF FEBRUARY! MORE DETAILS HERE: https://modernmoneylab.org.au/events/film-tour/ Patricia and Christian talk to Professor Steven Hail about behavioural economics as a vital corrective to the unreal assumptions in mainstream models. Just as MMT model…

Christian talks to Mark Diesendorf, a physicist and professor in the Environment & Society Group at the University of New South Wales, about the economics underpinning his latest book, “The Path To An Ecologically Just Civilisation”. Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes: https://www.pat…

Christian talks to author Cory Doctorow and MMT founder Warren Mosler about Cory’s latest book “The Lost Cause” (set in a post-Green New Deal future), framing the MMT Job Guarantee, and more. 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 ch…

Patricia and Christian talk to economist, author and Modern Money Lab instructor Dr Erik Dean about the history of Keynesianism, BS jobs, and Keynes’ “Economic Possibilities For Our Grandchildren”. Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/MMTpodcast All our episodes…

To commemorate the anniversary of Trussonomic Mini-budgeting, Christian talks to Professor John T. Harvey about what determines currency prices and more. 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…

Patricia & Christian conclude their conversation about Stephanie Kelton’s best-seller The Deficit Myth. 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: …

As opposition politicians lecture their constituents about not loving growth enough, and vow to keep children in poverty to achieve it, Patricia & Christian talk to award-winning economist and author of “Money For Beginners - An Illustrated Guide” Professor L. Randall Wray about how governments spend and the legacy of 40 years of ignoring it. Pleas…

Patricia & Christian talk to economist, author and one of the organisers of the 2023 European MMT conference (September 9th & 10th, details below) Dr Dirk Ehnts about Bidenomics, Britain’s bankrupt water utilities, and how understanding the plumbing of modern money is vital to bringing about a just and green energy transition in the face of multipl…

Patricia & Christian talk to Kremer Endowed Chair of Economics at Willamette University, Professor Yan Liang about China’s economy, international trade, sovereign wealth funds, de-dollarisation, and more. Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/MMTpodcast All our e…

As the Bank of England plays one-club golf with interest rates, (using the wrong end of the golf club while dressed in scuba gear) Patricia & Christian talk to economist and author of “Can Heterodox Economics Make A Difference?” Dr Phil Armstrong about changing the game. Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all episodes and…

Patricia & Christian talk to MMT founder Warren Mosler about bond markets, Beyoncéflation and degrowing the financial sector. 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 …

Patricia & Christian talk to economist and founder of the ground-breaking Modern Money Lab project Professor Steven Hail about the urgency of a swift and just transition to a sustainable economy and examine some of the excuses politicians selectively employ to avoid policymaking as if people and the planet matter. Please help sustain this podcast! …

Patricia & Christian talk to economist and author of “The Case For A Job Guarantee” Professor Pavlina Tcherneva about her chapter in the recently-published “MMT: Key Insights, Leading Thinkers”. Three Lessons From Government Spending And The Post-Pandemic Recovery: (1) The funding is always there. (2) Unemployment is a policy choice. (3) Large gove…

Patricia & Christian talk to acclaimed author and activist Cory Doctorow, about his new crypto heist thriller “Red Team Blues”, and the real-world money mechanics and shady shenanigans that inform the story. Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/MMTpodcast Order …

Patricia & Christian talk to Daniel Kostzer, chief economist at the International Trade Union Confederation and contributor to “Modern Monetary Theory: Key Insights, Leading thinkers” about his chapter, which revisits Argentina’s 2002 Jefes de Hogar employment guarantee programme, and details considerations to be weighed in the implementation of an…

As the UK celebrates the coronation of its most famous pensioner and its central bank tells everybody else to accept being poor, Patricia and Christian continue their conversation about Stephanie Kelton’s best-seller, The Deficit Myth and ask: can the world’s 5th richest economy afford dignity for all, or just those with their own anthem? Please he…

Patricia & Christian talk to Richard Tye, contributor to the recently-published “MMT: Key Insights, Leading thinkers”, about his chapter: “Credit and The Exchequer since the Restoration”. Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/MMTpodcast Order the Gower Initiative…

For currency-issuing governments, taxes for revenue are obsolete, so what *are* they for? Patricia & Christian talk to economist and author Dr Dirk Ehnts about the role of taxation in modern money systems, banking regulation, inflation, new eurozone fiscal rule proposals, and more. Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all e…

Christian talks to Edward Cornell Professor of Law, public finance consultant, and author of “Financing The Green New Deal” Robert Hockett about the recent collapses in the banking system and how to make banks work for people, rather than the other way around. Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-onl…

Patricia & Christian talk to Associate Professor of Economics at Franklin & Marshall college Yeva Nersisyan about ensuring the sustainability of Social Security (state pensions) with this one not-so-weird trick that unmitigatedly works for all other types of government spending. Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all epis…

Patricia and Christian talk to award-winning economist and author of “Making Money Work For Us” Professor L. Randall Wray about how central banks use [checks notes] *vibes* to “anchor inflation expectations”, why it keeps failing, and what might work instead. Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only…

Patricia and Christian talk to MMT founder Warren Mosler about the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and more. Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/MMTpodcast Order the Gower Initiative’s “Modern Monetary Theory - Key Insights, Leading Thinkers” (2023): htt…

Christian talks to economist and author Dr Phil Armstrong about what’s likely to be missing from coverage of the UK budget this week and what functional fiscal policy might look like. Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/MMTpodcast Order the Gower Initiative’s “…

Patricia & Christian talk to Stuart Medina Miltimore, economist and founder of the Spanish advocacy group Red MMT about his chapter (co-written with Bill Mitchell) in the major new academic collaboration “Modern Monetary Theory - Key Insights, Leading Thinkers”, which lays out how the euro has driven austerity and the depoliticisation of European d…

What is money, where does it come from and why is it important? Patricia & Christian talk to award-winning primary MMT academic Professor L. Randall Wray about his latest book “Making Money Work For Us” and his part in the new academic collaboration “Modern Monetary Theory - Key Insights, Leading Thinkers.” Also in this episode: What are taxes for?…

Part 5: Patricia and Christian continue their conversation about Stephanie Kelton’s best-seller The Deficit Myth. In this episode: what does it mean for a nation to “win” or “lose” at trade? As the global 99% are pitted against each other in an increasingly gigified international job market, who’s “we” and what is “winning”? In an effort to dodge t…

According to multi award-winning economist Professor James K. Galbraith, the new book, “Modern Monetary Theory: Key Insights, Leading Thinkers” is ‘a landmark in the development of MMT, a boon for “useful” economists - and a profound challenge to all the others.’ Patricia and Christian talk to the architects of this collaboration of leading experts…

With expert guidance from economist and “MMT Essentials” author, Dr Dirk Ehnts, Patrica and Christian fill the gaps in reporting on the World Economic Forum’s annual greenwashing festival in Davos, where critics of the Biden administration’s kitten-weak climate bill (the Inflation Reduction Act) warn it gives *too much* assistance to green initiati…

Patrica and Christian talk to economist and co-author of the just-published “Modern Monetary Theory - Key Insights, Leading Thinkers” Dr Phil Armstrong about why mainstream economists think unemployment is good, why Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer’s proposals to make the UK more prosperous by starving it of investment might be misguided, and what usef…

MMT founder Warren Mosler answers listeners’ questions on topics including: how governments spend, the role of taxation, government bond issuance, central banking, commercial banking, interest rates, exchange rates, inflation, the NHS, the MMT Job Guarantee, the Eurozone and more. Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all ep…

Patricia and Christian talk to economist and author Dr Dirk Ehnts about the false-but-folksy economic premises behind Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement, the difference between currency users and currency issuers, why government borrowing isn’t really borrowing, why taxes are important (but not for the reasons many think) and help climate en…

In anticipation of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement, Patricia and Christian talk to economist and author Dr Phil Armstrong about currency crises, inflation, the shortcomings of monetary policy, the national (so-called) debt, the Office for Budget “Responsibility”, and what economic opposition might look like. Please help sustain this podca…

Patricia and Christian talk to financial consultant and author Brian Romanchuk about how the UK’s recent pension fund crisis impacted the gilt and mortgage markets, the significance of currency price shifts, banks as credit risk intermediaries, the Swedish Central Bank’s Prize in Economic Sciences, and what to do about so-called “bond vigilantes”. …

Edited highlights of Professor Yeva Nersisyan’s presentation on financing the Green New Deal from this year’s Levy Economics Institute Summer Seminar. Video of this event: https://youtu.be/6qZNN96Ggs8 Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/MMTpodcast For an intro …

Patricia and Christian talk about Jeremy Hunt’s appointment as UK chancellor and his upcoming medium-term fiscal plan. Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/MMTpodcast For an intro to MMT: Our first three episodes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41742417 Episode 1…

Edited highlights of Professor Pavlina Tcherneva’s presentation on the MMT Job Guarantee from this year’s Levy Economics Institute Summer Seminar. Video of this event: https://youtu.be/zzqVCiUw7L4 Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/MMTpodcast For an intro to M…

Patricia and Christian talk to economist and author Dr Dirk Ehnts about the ongoing fallout from UK Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget, exchange rates, bond yields, the mechanics of the Eurozone payments system, and the push-pull relationship between commerce and governance. Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all epi…

Patricia and Christian talk to economist and author Dr Phil Armstrong about Trussonomics and UK Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s recent “fiscal event”. Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/MMTpodcast For an intro to MMT: Our first three episodes: https://www.patreon.…

Edited highlights of Professor John T Harvey’s presentation on exchange rate determination and what his insights mean for progressive policies (such as the MMT Job Guarantee) at this year’s Levy Institute MMT summer seminar. Video of this event: https://youtu.be/kSyme-ak32s Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all episodes …

Patricia and Christian talk to MMT founder Warren Mosler about the MMT view of interest rates, the Inflation Reduction Act, and some recent New York Times coverage of Warren’s ideas. Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/MMTpodcast For an intro to MMT: Our first …

Edited highlights from Harvard Kennedy School research fellow Paul Sheard’s presentation on quantitative easing at the Levy Economics Institute’s recent summer seminar. Video of this event: https://youtu.be/0MrWQvvGAZM Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/MMTpod…