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Showing posts with label policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label policy. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 5, 2020

MMT And Fiscal Policy: Radical Or Not? — Brian Romanchuk

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Most public debate around Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) revolves around fiscal policy. This is not too surprising, as this is largely where ...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Bill Mitchell — Politicians think the public is more right-wing and conservative than it actually is

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It is Wednesday and so a short blog. I am working on a number of things at present but getting the material sorted for my next book with Th...
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Friday, June 16, 2017

Moon of Alabama When Generals Make Policies - From Tactics To Strategy To Political Decision

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Let me draw out a bit the point that b makes about strategy versus tactics. The priories in descending order are policy, which set goals an...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Neil Wilson — Running a Modern Money Economy

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MMT is a description of the existing monetary system and its interaction with the production mechanisms. It takes a unique viewpoint that h...
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Saturday, September 17, 2016

Robert D. Kaplan — The Real War of Ideas

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Robert Kaplan proposes that geopolitics-policy is a more relevant distinction than realist-idealist in delineating different approaches to ...
Friday, September 4, 2015

Sandwichman — The Moral Center of Capitalism and the Cornerstone of the Confederacy

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The " measuring rod " of historical "correctness" for school textbooks in the Southern States instructed school boards ...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Putin's stupid economic policies might be eroding the support of the Russian people

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New York Times reporting that workers in some Russian cities are not getting paid. MOSCOW — In the far east, the teachers went on strike....
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Sunday, April 5, 2015

The Entire Discipline Of Economics Has Become So Misused That It's Current Use Harms More Than It Helps

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   (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson) Definition of "economics": what aristocrats call "creative accounting." ...
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Sunday, March 1, 2015

Uh ... Isn't Demand Destruction Inseparable From Policy?

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  (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson) Oil price crash is driven by Demand Destruction, not politics ?? Same thing? Or do they t...
Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Jonathan Denn — The Politics of MMT (Strange Bedfellows)

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I don’t think these two premises, MMT and ideology, are mutually exclusive. What I propose is there are issues and contexts where a majorit...
Sunday, January 11, 2015

Is There Any Bureaucracy (Or Orthodoxy) In The World With An Intact Legacy? World Upheaval Now Guaranteed.

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(Commentary posted by Roger Erickson) On the Verge of Disaster - Or a Miracle (but not for the reasons the author imagines) (...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

When YOU See Your Own Slow-Motion Train Wreck Proceeding ... What Do YOU Do?

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   (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson) The Truth About the Wars   "AS a senior commander in Iraq and Afghanistan, I lost 80 so...
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Thursday, October 23, 2014

Always Remember That Floating Fx Reflects Policy Steps, Not Just Markets Presumed To Function In Isolation

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(Commentary posted by Roger Erickson) Naïveté = uncertainty. There is no such thing as Free Trade. There are only policies affecting arb...
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Sunday, October 12, 2014

Narrow Statements Fall Short Of A General Policy Observation. We Need Synthesis, Through Coordination.

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   (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson) With enough of these narrow, repetitive statements, will all the emerging institutions representi...
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Saturday, September 6, 2014

GDP As A Policy Metric, It's Not Just Not Right, It's Not Even Wrong

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   (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson) GDP Is Wrong Steve Hansen says: "The most recent quarter being reported says the real eco...
Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Setting Net National-Context-Awareness As A Desired National Outcome

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   (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson.) How about an electorate learning how to lead it's own culture? Can that group-quality be ...
Wednesday, July 2, 2014

"Successful" Politics ... At Expense Of General Welfare Of The People?

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   (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson.) Translation: " Only 2 Presidents in last 50 years to REDUCE PRIVATE FINANCIAL SAVINGS ...
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Sunday, June 29, 2014

Wrong Response, Too Late ..... Story Of The Last 70 Years?

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   (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson.) Vietnam War Iraq Is this our story of the last 70 years? Too little feedback is gath...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Tim Johnson — Scientific facts and democratic values

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The logic of justification comes down to criteria. Are there absolute criteria? How would one know for sure that one knows that criteria a...
Friday, May 23, 2014

MacroEconomics Is Driving Decline In Policy Agility ... Largely Because It Is Still Rife With Illogical Fallacies Of Scale?

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(Commentary posted by Roger Erickson) A culture that no longer listens to the pain of its distributed aggregate .... can not stand. B...
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