Saturday, September 12, 2020

TASS — Russia will keep low level of public debt to ensure macroeconomic stability - experts


I guess they haven't yet discovered MMT.

On another note, Russia has de-dollarized, having gone to gold and created an alternative to SWIFT.

TASS
Russia will keep low level of public debt to ensure macroeconomic stability - experts

10 comments:

Andrew Anderson said...

I guess they haven't yet discovered MMT. Tom Hickey

Neither has the MMT School since they think interest and yields on risk-free sovereign debt should go no lower than 0%.

Nor does the MMT School recognize that the DEMAND for fiat should be increased by allowing everyone to use it in account form and by abolishing all other privileges for private banks.

Nor do they advocate a Citizen's Dividend to replace all fiat creation for private interests.

So the so-called experts on fiat, the MMT School, are no such thing.

Btw, Marx was a gold-bug and a materialist so it's no wonder the Russians are polluted thereby.

NeilW said...

"I guess they haven't yet discovered MMT"

In some respects it's a good job they haven't - otherwise the power balance in the world could really shift.

Andrew Anderson said...

- otherwise the power balance in the world could really shift. NeilW

Yea as if INCREASED privileges for the banks, tax the non-rich to control price inflation and wage-slavery to government for the victims is likely to prove popular anywhere.

So it seems the Russians prefer the "waste can of history" to current MMT proposals and that's a disgrace to the MMT School.

Peter Pan said...

The Debt Goldilocks Zone (DGZ)... what could go wrong?

Matt Franko said...

High levels of savings are not ideal...

Peter Pan said...

Tell that to Apple Computer...

Matt Franko said...

They buy USTs in an Ireland entity with their tax free offshore earnings and then borrow against them As collateral and buy their shares back with the loan proceeds..., not savings.... scam....

AXEC / E.K-H said...

Putin or Trump — who is owned by the Oligarchy?
Comment on TASS/Tom Hickey on ‘Russia will keep low level of public debt to ensure macroeconomic stability — experts’

Tom Hickey comments: “I guess they haven't yet discovered MMT.”

First, for governments, there is not much to discover with MMT. Governments do deficit-spending/money-creation since time immemorial. And the Russian government is NO exception.

Does anybody believe that Mr. Putin does not know recent history? “Adam Smith, when he wrote his Wealth of Nations, and Burke, when he produced his famous speech on economic reform, understood by ‘political economy’ a ‘branch of the science of the statesman or legislator’, a theory of practice, the science of the prudent management of the public finances. The growth of the huge debts which weighed on the great military nations would end in proving their ruin. This was especially true of England, which had become immensely in debt through the conquest of her colonial Empire.” (Halévy)

Second, does anybody believe that Mr. Putin does not know that MMT policy is NOT for the benefit of the People but for the benefit of the Oligarchy?#1 To recall, the macroeconomic Profit Law implies Public Deficit = Private Profit. Does it make sense for Mr. Putin to feed the Russian Oligarchs with newly printed money?

Because we cannot read Mr. Putin's mind we really don't know.

It is different from Mr. Trump. The first thing he did after his inauguration was to surround himself with Wall Street folks. So, it is not really a surprise that Mr. Trump blew deficit-spending/money-creation up to hitherto unknown proportions.#2

After four years, it is pretty obvious that for Mr. Trump and his oligarchic backers it holds: mission accomplished.#3

No surprise then, that MMT has become so popular in the U.S. recently#4 but not so much in Russia.

Egmont Kakarot-Handtke

#1 Is MMT good for WeThePeople or for the Oligarchy?
https://axecorg.blogspot.com/2019/07/is-mmt-good-for-wethepeople-or-for.html

#2 Keynes, Lerner, MMT, Trump and exploding profit
https://axecorg.blogspot.com/2017/12/keynes-lerner-mmt-trump-and-exploding.html

#3 Gosh! the One Percent have gotten $21 trillion richer: Links on Distribution
https://axecorg.blogspot.com/2019/11/gosh-one-percent-have-gotten-21.html

#4 MMT ― now official doctrine
https://axecorg.blogspot.com/2020/07/mmt-now-official-doctrine.html

Peter Pan said...

But AXEC, there's still no job guarantee...

Matt Franko said...

Russia risk free rate 4.25%

If they put it down to ZIRP their deficit would increase substantially...