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Exchange Rate Policy and Full Employment

by Warren Mosler, Mosler Economics Editor’s note: This is the manuscript for a presentation made on either 03 December 1997 or 03 December 1999 (see discussion in comments) at a conference hosted by Prof. William Mitchell, University of Newcastle, New … Continue reading

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The Great Debate©: Who Saw it Coming? (Part 2)

by L. Randall Wray, New Economic Perspectives Editor’s note: This is a continuation of the discussion posted earlier, The Great Debate©:  Who Saw It Coming? A focal point of that discussion was Hyman Minsky who formulated theories about instability in … Continue reading

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Federal Reserve: Can We Run Out of Money?

Guest Author: Stephanie Kelton Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gave his fourth lecture at George Washington University yesterday. Buried in the lecture, beginning at about 19:18 in the video (shown below), Bernanke explained where the Fed got the money to … Continue reading

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Abba Lerner: Functional Finance

Written by John Lounsbury Abba Lerner (1903-1982) was not considered a dominant figure in American economics for much of his career although he collaborated and exchanged ideas with many more famous economists of his time.  He studied under Friedrich Hayek … Continue reading

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The Great Debate©: The Job Guarantee Brouhaha

by Hugo Heden and John Lounsbury John Carney, a senior editor at CNBC.com, has been writing a series of articles about the job guarantee (JG) aspect of what is known as Modern Monetary Theory(MMT). The JG is also known as … Continue reading

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U.S. Facing Insolvency by Ignorant Choice

by Derryl Hermanutz In his book, “The 7 Deadly Innocent Frauds of Economic Policy”, modern money theory (MMT) advocate Warren Mosler distinguishes between three very different kinds of money systems, “Historically, there have been three categories of money: commodity, credit, … Continue reading

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Why Financing is not Saving: Fable of the Breads

by Dirk Ehnts I must admit that it took me some time to understand this:  financing is not saving. You may finance all sorts of things, and savings are not a necessary part of this story.  The reason why this … Continue reading

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