It’s Wednesday, and I have been filming most of the day some of the material that will appear in the next set of course material offered by – MMTed. We hope to offer some new courses later in September. But progress is slow (see below). Today, I provide some brief comments on my response to the Federal government’s latest – 2021 Intergenerational Report – which is one of the ridiculous, smokescreen-creating exercises that allow the government to avoid political responsibility for its fiscal surplus obsession. They come out every five years and are usually jam-packed with scaremongering about unsustainable fiscal deficits and the need for spending cuts. The only difference this time is that the damage caused by the years of following the austerity path – to health care, to aged care, to skills development, etc, have changed our attitudes. We have also seen that the government can spend what it likes without taxes going up and without bond markets declaring the government insolvent. We have now lived with large deficits as a result of the pandemic and the game is up on the deficits are bad and the sky will crash down story line. Our changing view on what we now demand from the Government is reflected in this latest effort....Bill Mitchell – billy blog
Intergenerational Report – the past is catching up with the government and the game is up
Bill Mitchell | Professor in Economics and Director of the Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE), at University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia
MMTers at the end of their wits
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Bill Mitchell comments the 2021 Intergenerational Report as follows: ridiculous, smokescreen-creating, jam-packed with scaremongering, latest nonsense, madness, designed to deflect the damage that the government surpluses were creating in the mid-1990s, embarrassing for Treasury workers to be coerced by their bosses into producing this garbage.” and “What parades as economic analysis is just the usual neo-liberal mainstream nonsense that currency-issuing governments have run out of money and fiscal deficits are dangerous.” and “We have also seen that the government can spend what it likes without taxes going up and without bond markets declaring the government insolvent. We have now lived with large deficits as a result of the pandemic and the game is up on the deficits are bad and the sky will crash down story line.“
All this, of course, is not a scientifically valid argument but desperate political shit throwing. As such it is, just another example of the abysmal level of academic economics. To this day, economists are too stupid for the elementary algebra of macroeconomics.#1
MMT has been refuted by the proof of its inconsistency. Because the foundational concepts of MMT are false the whole analytical superstructure of MMT is scientifically worthless.#2 That is, MMT's policy guidance has NO sound scientific foundations. It is just political agenda pushing for the benefit of the Oligarchy. The claim that MMT policy is for the benefit of WeThePeople is a political fraud.#3
MMTers debate every crappy argument that comes their way but have never attempted to refute the proof of the inconsistency of the MMT sectoral balances equation.#4
MMT is refuted on all counts and a sure sign that MMTers are at the end of their wits is that all that they do is to repeat their thoroughly refuted silly slogans of the harmlessness of a continuously growing public debt.#5
It is a mathematical certainty that the macroeconomic Profit Law implies Public Deficit = Private Profit. By the same token, it is a political certainty that MMTers are agenda-pushers for the Oligarchy and false Friends-of-the-People.
Egmont Kakarot-Handtke
#1 Wikipedia, economics, scientific knowledge, or political agenda pushing?
https://axecorg.blogspot.com/2020/06/wikipedia-economics-scientific.html
#2 MMT has been conclusively refuted and MMTers can do NOTHING about it
https://axecorg.blogspot.com/2021/04/nobody-is-afraid-of-mmt-because-it-has.html
#3 For details of the big picture see cross-references MMT
https://axecorg.blogspot.com/2017/07/mmt-cross-references.html
#4 MMTers still don't get the foundational sectoral balances right
https://axecorg.blogspot.com/2021/01/occasional-tweets-210129b-mmters-still.html
#5 No MMT illusions! YOU are going to pay for it
https://axecorg.blogspot.com/2019/05/no-mmt-illusions-you-are-going-to-pay.html