Rusty Messages: 507 Registered: May 2018 Location: Kansas City Missouri
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Another fine article by BillyBob, Bill Mitchel, principal author of the MMT textbook. He explains how the neoliberal paradigm, the New Keynesian's monetary principals have co opted our legislative bodies to do the bidding of what satisfies the financial markets. The markets are the fantasy built into neoliberal ideology. We're all compromised as a result. The news from Texas this last week is a glaring example. Public trust's held hostage to the markets.
Rusty Messages: 507 Registered: May 2018 Location: Kansas City Missouri
Illuminati (1st Degree)
Our one party system. They bicker and play tug-o-war in Washington. Committees investigate, houses legislate. Politicians pontificate. But the status quo is whom bears the burden. Guess who? Take away the pretense of what either of your political party's can do for you. It's been captured and held for conspicuous consumption.
Rusty Messages: 507 Registered: May 2018 Location: Kansas City Missouri
Illuminati (1st Degree)
The 1.9 Trillion covid relief passed the House recently. On to the Senate it goes, along with the usual doom that accompanies any spending by the government. Unless it's military spending. As a matter of due course, figures show the USA spends more than the spending of the top 8,9 or 10 countries on this planet combined. This begs looking again at what MMT economist Eric Tymoigne writes about the subject of our National Debt. It never has, nor ever will be needed to be paid back. It's a number on a spreadsheet for the cumulative amount of debt spent by the federal government since this country has existed.
The debt is not like a commercial bank debt. Ask yourself what is the federal government for? What and who does it serve? The MMT principals are merely the understanding of what and how the workings of our federal government and monetary system actually work. Irrespective of economic models that are "popular" during a historical period. It's there regardless.
As he says. In other words, fiscal deficits are a normal state of affairs for the US government. They have been so for decades. This is the norm in the United States and throughout the world. Get over it.
Rusty Messages: 507 Registered: May 2018 Location: Kansas City Missouri
Illuminati (1st Degree)
Hi. Guess who! Just me and my MMT shadow. The shadow knows thing's aren't right. And they won't be right even with a recovery from this act of god event. No insurance will cover it. A few years back was a popular phrase, "what would Jesus do, or say". I think this article is what the action and reply Jesus would grace upon us in regards to the big picture, the long haul for our livelihood. Jesus rebuked the money mongers in his time. Nothing has changed since then.
Our rust belt, a bankrupt city of Detroit, a lead laden water supply of Flint is a physical manifestation of our sellout by a financialized short term returns oriented economy. We'll come out of the pandemic eventually with exactly the same issues going into it. Stagnation of wages, high cost of living and deteriorating infrastructure. What would Jesus do?
He'd teach the money mongers how to fish.
Rusty Messages: 507 Registered: May 2018 Location: Kansas City Missouri
Illuminati (1st Degree)
Everything that is wrong is right. And everything that is right is wrong. Because the economics profession is predominantly trained to be that way. We have an economy that is run by the book. The book is written by and for the financial class. Bill Mitchell knows it intimately from his early training. He learned reality all on his own.
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