Thursday, January 5, 2023

Was our experiment with modern monetary theory a colossal failure? Not so fast — David Parkinson

Thin response but at least something of an antidote to the venom that is spewing.

The Globe and Mail
Was our experiment with modern monetary theory a colossal failure? Not so fast
David Parkinson

10 comments:

Ahmed Fares said...
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Ahmed Fares said...

Correction: David Parkinson's older brother Mike Parkinson was my best friend growing up.

Peter Pan said...

What experiment?

Matt Franko said...

All the people relying on financial leverage are all pissed off now that Fed is coming up off ZIRP and are blaming MMT for the “inflation!” …

Matt Franko said...

JPM is up 33% from the October 11 bottom…

BAC, C, WFC up 10-15%

Blackrock up 40%

Even DB up 70% as EZ starts to increase the rates

Lenders way up …. borrowers way down…

Lenders time to benefit after 15 years of ZIRP…

Not MMTs fault… MMT advocates for permanent ZIRP…

Peter Pan said...

MMT advocates for a job guarantee... I see no sign of it in the so-called experiment.

Matt Franko said...

They did direct universal income transfers …

Ahmed Fares said...

'So easy I thought it was fake': CRA’s CERB system gets stellar reviews in first days of operation

“It’s so easy I thought it was fake,” another applicant told the Post, explaining that all he had to do was log into his Canada Revenue Agency account, click on the appropriate link and answer three questions before getting an approval message from the CRA saying the $2,000 benefit would be in his account within three days.

Close to one million applications for the CERB — which offers people $2,000 a month for up to 16 weeks — were filed through the CRA-operated processing portal within 24 hours of the benefit becoming available, according to the federal government, perhaps the largest-ever number of unemployment claims filed in a single day to date.


Meanwhile, in the US...

Stimulus Checks May Be Delayed Because Our Man-Child President Wanted His Name on Them

NeilW said...

"They did direct universal income transfers"

MMT recommends eliminating interest rate changes and placing the currency on a labour hour standard. That's how we anchor the monetary economy to the real economy. We haven't done that - so we're still using Neoliberal stabilisation policy.

Just paying people money has a tendency to be inflationary - again as MMT explains.

It's a framing trick - this thing that was done differently must be MMT so it's MMT that's incorrect.

Matt Franko said...

Theyre all pissed off Neil

https://twitter.com/convertbond/status/1610638195506511873?s=61&t=GufSJf6LNV5MbJBlX1LQbA

“ "Why is Blackstone paying Tony Soprano yields (11%) for liquidity, trying to avoid an asset fire sale to meet redemptions.”

So Blackstone puts this out

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/byron-wien-releases-10-surprises-2023-fed-remains-more-hawkish-twitter-recovers-mmt-fully

“ This time, Modern Monetary Theory is fully discredited because deficits have proven to be inflationary.”

They have to blame somebody else as it couldn’t possibly be their own fault…

Meanwhile the banks are hoovering up munnie like crazy for first time in 15 years…

It’s like Mike says it’s just a redistribution of the spoils.. these leveraged guys are the current losers.., suck it up cupcakes.,,