Sunday, February 2, 2025

Your 4-Step Guide to Understanding the 2008 Financial Crash & Subsequent Recession From a Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) Perspective — Jim Byrne

Politicians on both sides of the Atlantic are once again talking about rolling back banking regulations to kick-start growth. This article is a timely reminder of why those regulations exist.
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Your 4-Step Guide to Understanding the 2008 Financial Crash & Subsequent Recession — From a Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) Perspective
Jim Byrne | MMT Scotland

Canada response to tariffs

 

Where was this play in the Art degree Keynesian free market fundamentalism playbook?  I thought the Canada people were just supposed to add the tariff onto the price of the products?  Instead they are removing the products from inventories… going to create a glut of these products in the US and US prices are going to fall to get rid of it … no “inflation!”… 🤔





Fed on tariffs

 

LOL … then according to Art degree monetarists they should reduce the rate to figure of speech  “counter the headwinds!”.. which is what Trump wants them to do in the first place… 




Saturday, February 1, 2025

2025 Fiscal

 

Looks like DOGE/Elon trying to reduce top line by $1T by September… US GDP $27T/yr…. So no multiple that’s a direct 3.7% … 

I guess they think they’re only reducing govt spending on unnecessary regulatory activities or something… climate nutter stuff etc… maybe the “Argentina model”… 🤔




He seems to understand the Art degree figure of speech “money!” as rather a scientific abstraction: