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Friday, May 23, 2014
Randy Wray Live on Thom Hartmann’s Show May 27, 3-4pm ET
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Economonitor — Great Leap Forward
Wray Live on Thom Hartmann’s Show May 27, 3-4pm ET
L. Randall Wray | Professor of Economics, University of Missouri at Kansas City
Thursday, May 1, 2014
Friday, March 8, 2013
The dollar has NOT gone down since the 1970s.
I saw in an earlier post that Randy Wray was interviewed by Thom Hartmann, where the question was posed, "Why has the dollar fallen so much since the 1970's?"
Well, it didn't. Take a look. This is the dollar index against a broad basket of currencies.
The dollar may have gone down against the major currencies, but when viewed against a broad basket of currencies, it didn't go down, it went up.
The statement that the dollar went down after we went off the gold standard is commonly put out there, but it is wrong.
Here's the link to the Fed data for anyone that's interested. Enjoy.
Monday, February 25, 2013
Thom Hartmann interviews Stephanie Kelton — What is Modern Monetary Theory
Thom Hartmann interviews Stephanie Kelton
The Price of Oil & The Decline of The Dollar
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Could a New Monetary Program Be Coming? Thom Hartmann talks Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) with Steve Keen
Could a New Monetary Program Be Coming? p1
Thom Hartmann talks Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) with Steve Keen, Professor of Economics & Finance-University of Western Sydney (AU) / Author-Debunking Economics ,Website: www.debtdeflation.com , who has some reservations.
Could a New Monetary Program Be Coming? p2
Could a new monetary program be coming? p3
(h/t clonal via email)
Monday, February 11, 2013
How MMT Will Save America & the World: Thom Hartmann interviews Michael Hudson
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Thom Hartmann — End coporate personhood to develop new economy
The prevalence of the corporation in America has led men of this generation to act, at times, as if the privilege of doing business in corporate form were inherent in the citizen; and has led them to accept the evils attendant upon the free and unrestricted use of the corporate mechanism as if these evils were the inescapable price of civilized life, and, hence, to be borne with resignation.Throughout the greater part of our history a different view prevailed.
Although the value of this instrumentality in commerce and industry was fully recognized, incorporation for business was commonly denied long after it had been freely granted for religious, educational, and charitable purposes.
It was denied because of fear. Fear of encroachment upon the liberties and opportunities of the individual. Fear of the subjection of labor to capital. Fear of monopoly. Fear that the absorption of capital by corporations, and their perpetual life, might bring evils similar to those which attended mortmain [immortality]. There was a sense of some insidious menace inherent in large aggregations of capital, particularly when held by corporations.— U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, 19331
