Does Japan Do MMT?
In case you had any doubts, Japan is not following MMT economic policy prescriptions.
Read more...In case you had any doubts, Japan is not following MMT economic policy prescriptions.
Read more...The authorities have come to realize that monopolists like Google and Amazon aren’t good for the health of the economy or even (despite their tech sheen) “innovation”.
Read more...Might air travel take a serious hit from climate change before polic-makers work up the nerve to intervene?
Read more...A new St. Louis Fed analysis shows the wealth of areas in financial distress deteriorated from 2015 to 2018, reversing a pattern of gains that had started in 2010.
Read more...Why the foundations of conservatism are crumbling.
Read more...How China is likely to view defying US sanctions on Iran.
Read more...A shame that someone like Martin Wolf does get the core idea of MMT but still really can’t or won’t accept its implications.
Read more...Why should governments give cash-handouts before providing free, quality public services to all?
Read more...Possible American and EU responses to multipolar politics.
Read more...Voters accepted that authoritarianism would produce security, which neutralised warnings by intellectuals and opposition parties that Modi’s India was heading towards fascism.
Read more...Why Trump ‘s narrowly nationalistic trade agenda, combined with his nostalgia for a 1950s style economy, will undermine U.S. economic prosperity and U.S. global hegemony.
Read more...Updating a classic Keynes discussion of war financing for MMT and the Green New Deal.
Read more...A high level of auto-loan delinquencies challlenges the cheery spin the Fed and the financial press is putting on the state of the ecoomy.
Read more...Economists and policy makers are waking up to the fact that estimates of what is possible in the economy – “potential output” – are way off: this paper explains why.
Read more...Why the US needs to embrace an industiral policy to combat climate change.
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