Tuesday, December 26, 2017

David Parkman Interviw of Stephanie Kelton - Modern Monetary Theory & "The Value of Money"

And excellent interview of Stephanie Kelton which covers the difference between the Republicans and Democrats standpoint on the national deficit. Stephanie Kelton says why there would not be any inflation in an MMT economic system or with a job guarantee as spending would be carefully applied to where the economy is under performing which would increase products and services. She says how a UBI could create inflation as it would inject an enormous amount of new money into the economy without necessary creating new jobs and services. She then covers Bitcoin where she says neutral on it at the moment until she knows more about it. She says how the monetarists keep inflation down by maintaining some unemployment but MMT has an extremely efficient way of doing this while keeping full employment.




9 comments:

Matt Franko said...

"covers the difference between the Republicans and Democrats standpoint on the national deficit. "

This is from a partisan Democrat...

Matt Franko said...

Lots of discussion about 'inflation' here in a context of certainty meanwhile here is the top academic economist on 'inflation':

Yellen: "Our understanding of the forces driving inflation is imperfect."


hmmmmm...

Matt Franko said...

"Do Deficits Matter? Trump Says No; Clinton Says Yes"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/beltway/2016/10/20/do-deficits-matter-trump-says-no-clinton-says-yes-but/#1cd5f054163d

Matt Franko said...

???????

Matt Franko said...

From the Forbes article:

"As she said repeatedly in Wednesday night’s debate, her fiscal plan“will not add a penny to the debt.” Trump’s tax plan, by contrast, would make deficits worse. Much worse."

This is BS...

Trump is taxing EXISTING SAVINGS of multinationals... this will LOWER the deficit...

Trumps plan will lower the deficit by 1 taxing pre existing savings of the multinationals and 2 dis incentivize on going and future savings by tax dodging multinationals... and 3 not raising the rate of govt spending (Treasury withdrawals) but rather decreasing the taxes of households with a propensity to spend...

MMT is ALL IN on Trump's tax plan raising the deficit...

Tom Hickey said...

Saving and taxing are on a par regarding neutralizing $.

MMT would encourage policy to increase spending when there is unemployment and inflation remains moderate.

"Repatriating savings" and taxing some of the proceeds won't make any difference if the result doesn't increase spending on firm investment or household consumption but rather is just directed into other forms of saving.

No economists other than the supply sides think that this will result in much of an increase in US GDP, and the supply siders assume that the $ will all flow to investment in their models.

We won't know until after the fact what will happen, but most economists assume that a major portion of any transfers will go mostly to either stock buybacks or dividends, and dividends will largely be exchanged for financial instruments, i.e., flow to saving, creating more inequality of income and wealth.

Matt Franko said...

“No economists other than the supply sides think that this will result in much of an increase in US GDP, ”

Right just more tepid growth but with lower deficits as Trump isn’t proposing any big spending increases...

Matt Franko said...

Or even if the deficit stays the same all economists are going to be wrong...

Matt Franko said...

I just checked it thru yesterday’s 12/26/17 DTS withdrawals are (774-482 redemptions) = 292 net meanwhile deposits are (794 - 488 issued) = 306 net IOW we are running a 14b SURPLUS

Deposits are really strong... and this is before Trump new tax on foreign savings is even started...

Deficit is going down....