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Showing posts with label Treasury. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Treasury. Show all posts
Sunday, February 14, 2016

Eric Tymoigne — Money and Banking – Part 6

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This post concludes our study of central banking matters (there would be a lot more to cover…maybe another time). The post studies how the ...
Monday, October 12, 2015

Early Treasury data not encouraging for economy, stocks, dollar

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We're only six statement days into the new fiscal year, however, Treasury data is not encouraging. Employment tax deposits collected by ...
Monday, May 4, 2015

Fiscal snapshot: April ends with $373 billion in spending. Not bad, but some dark clouds are gathering.

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Okay, so here's the end of April fiscal snapshot. It's not great news. It's not a disaster (yet), but it's not great in my o...
Friday, March 27, 2015

JP Hochbaum — T Accounts of monetary operations

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Put together by Nathan Cedric Tankus FYI. Heretical Druthers T Accounts of monetary operations JP Hochbaum
Sunday, March 15, 2015

And so it begins...Treasury tapping Federal worker retirement funds in order to pay bills

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So here it begins once again. The Treasury is raiding money from Federal employees' retirement funds so that the gov't can pay its ...
Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Bill Mitchell — Direct central bank purchases of government debt

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There was a recently published Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Report – Direct Purchases of U.S. Treasury Securities by Federal Rese...
Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Breaking: U.S. tells China their currency is not rising fast enough

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Jack Lew at Treasury has apparently been given orders from the White House to do something to create "manufacturing jobs," so now...
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Brian Romanchuk — What Is A Government Bond?

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This article is an introduction to some core concepts of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). Although I associate this explanation with MMT, it i...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Steve Randy Waldman lays out default scenario

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Interesting take. Put the banks in cahoots with Treasury, taking care of the financial and corporate elites and taking out of the hides of ...
Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Randy Wray — Krugman Rediscovers the Wheel: Commercial Banks As Creators of Money

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I hope Paul Krugman will move on to a 21st century understanding of banking.   Economonitor — Great Leap Forward Krugman Rediscovers the ...
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Sunday, June 16, 2013

Neil Wilson — Bernanke - We are the agent of the Treasury

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For the file along with Alan Greenspan's testimony that the US can never become insolvent. 3spoken Bernanke - We are the agent of th...
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Saturday, June 15, 2013

Neil Wilson — The Consolidated Government Sector

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The key analytic technique that MMT uses that sets it apart from most others, is that it uses a consolidated government sector in its analy...
Sunday, June 2, 2013

Andrew Lainton — Government Debts and Treasury Bonds – Neither Keynesian or Inflationary

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This matters because treasury bonds are exactly like corporate bonds, these are in the first instance transfer payments between balance she...
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Monday, February 18, 2013

Joshua Wojnilower — The Dangers of Misunderstanding "Helicopter Money" and Higher Inflation Targets

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Woj analyzes Ashwin Parameshwaran's Helicopter Money Is Not Dangerous, All Macroeconomic Policy Is Dangerous in terms of the real inter...
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Monday, January 28, 2013

A break of the 1491 level on the S&P 500 would indicate that a market correction is starting

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Matt Franko and I have been detailing the last two months' net spending by the Treasury while under the debt ceiling constraint and the...
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Sunday, January 20, 2013

Laurence Kotlikoff — The Treasury Has Already Minted Two Trillion Dollar Coins

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...substitute a $2 trillion piece of paper called a Treasury bond for the platinum coin. Suppose the Treasury prints up such a piece of pap...
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Monday, January 14, 2013

Winterspeak — Why the Whitehouse was right to reject the platinum coin

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Another take on TPC rejection. It was the agencies. Winterspeak.com Why the Whitehouse was right to reject the platinum coin Winterspeak
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J. P. Koning — The final draft on Fed-Treasury overdrafts

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History of Fed financing the Treasury directly. Moneyness The final draft on Fed-Treasury overdrafts J. P. Konig (h/t Winterspeak at W...
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Saturday, January 12, 2013

Breaking— Treasury: We won’t mint a platinum coin to sidestep the debt ceiling

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The Treasury Department will not mint a trillion-dollar platinum coin to get around the debt ceiling. If they did, the Federal Reserve woul...
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Wednesday, January 9, 2013

The Economist — Platinomics

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Must-read. The cat is out of the bag. TPC has done its job. The explanation is now in the mainstream. No economist or financial professional...
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