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Showing posts with label monetary policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label monetary policy. Show all posts
Saturday, July 27, 2024

To Refurbish Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), One Must Admit That Lockdowns Were Indeed Harmful On Balance

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Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) has been taking quite a drubbing lately.  Some say it has been thoroughly discredited since it was de facto p...
Saturday, May 25, 2024

A Better Than Nordic-Style Social Welfare State With Less Than ALASKA Taxes

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A friendly reminder to all readers:  contrary to popular opinion, it is entirely possible to have a better than Nordic-style social welfare ...
Sunday, March 10, 2024

How To Escape A Stagflationary Quagmire

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What happens when the FERAL Reserve uses raising interest rates in an attempt to quash inflation?  You guessed it:  STAGFLATION. That is, a ...
Saturday, March 9, 2024

A Better Than Nordic-Style Social Welfare State With Less Than Florida Taxes

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A friendly reminder to all readers:  contrary to popular opinion, it is entirely possible to have a better than Nordic-style social welfare ...
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Monday, September 20, 2021

To Both Parties: Stop Playing "Chicken" With The Economy!

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The elephant and jackass corporate duopoly in Congress are at it again.  They are, for the gazillionth time, playing a dangerous game of &qu...
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Saturday, December 7, 2019

Paging Dr. Firestone (Part Deux)

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(For the longer version, see the previous post .) There has been  trouble brewing  lately in a little-understood corner of the financial m...
Saturday, November 16, 2019

Setting The Record Straight: Austerity Is NOT Good For The Economy

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The evidence is overwhelming now.  Austerity is NOT good for the economy, for the same reason that applying leeches to cure anemia is not a ...
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Thursday, November 14, 2019

Just Print The Money

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What seemingly intractable problems can be solved with just four simple words?  And which current presidential candidate once actually said ...
Saturday, January 12, 2019

Do Deficits Matter? It Depends On One's Definition

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The GOP has basically by word, deed, and especially by omission, admitted to being the party of "deficits don't matter, except when...
Tuesday, September 4, 2018

What "Give People Money" Gets Right--And Wrong at the Same Time

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One of our favorite journalists, Annie Lowrey, recently wrote a book called Give People Money:  How a Universal Basic Income Would End Pove...
Thursday, August 2, 2018

The Big Lie of Economics

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Big Lies have a very long history indeed.  As the infamous Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels (who knew quite a thing or two about lyi...
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