Zap — Dr. Kelton tweet thread on issuing money

Stephanie Kelton tweet explaining the basis of MMT. Some keeper quotes.

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Dr. Kelton tweet thread on issuing money

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Mother Earth Trust — The Earth Dollar

The Earth Dollar Creates a Sustainable Economy

The Earth Dollar is a currency based on nature that is created to fight climate change. The Earth Dollar ushers in a new Living Economic System that redefines money and success. No longer will unsustainable GDP be the only measurement of success in the world economy, but success will include how much CO2 we have in the atmosphere, how much clean water we have, how much forest we have, how healthy people are, how much peace we have, how happy people are…etc.…

Mother Earth Network

Blockchain Technology combined with Sovereignty**

The Mother Earth Network (Software Platform) is the world's first Sovereign Humanitarian Blockchain Network, created through treaties with nations. The Mother Earth Network will be a series of blockchains inter-linked together by a common protocol. The blockchains first selected for the network are the bitcoin blockchain, the Ethereum blockchain, and our own sovereign blockchain, using a modified version of Ethereum. For more details, visit: www.motherearth.network.

Our Sovereign Partners

Sovereign Nations and Governments adopting the Earth Dollar

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The Earth Dollar

Andrew Batson — The resource curse is alive and well in Mongolia

The [Chinese] province of Inner Mongolia of course does not have its own currency and does not borrow internationally, so it is not going to experience the same type of fiscal and currency problems as the independent nation of Mongolia. And while the governing institutions in the two places are quite different, neither place is exactly pursuing Norway-type best practices for managing their resource wealth. So there is also some evidence of the resource curse playing out in Inner Mongolia, essentially meaning bad economic decision-making during commodity booms….

Andrew Batson's Blog
The resource curse is alive and well in Mongolia
Andrew Batson

New Greek Finance Minister said, "Greece will neither want to leave the euro nor threaten to do so."

Oh well, this thing's going nowhere. It's got the liberal disease of big talk, no action, written all over it.

The new Finance Minister is this guy, Yanis Varoufakis. He once said, "Greece will neither want to leave the euro nor threaten to do so."

Done. Finished. Toast.

There is  no way that Tsipras and Syriza can deliver what they say they will deliver while in the euro. NO. WAY.

The sad thing is, this guy Varoufakis taught at University of Texas. That's where MMTer and economic liberal, James K. Galbraith teaches. Too bad he didn't learn a thing or two while he was there.

Brian Romanchuk — Why The JGB Market Ignored Moody’s Downgrade

Moody's being, well, just moody. Why it's off in left field in its risk analysis of the JGB.


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Why The JGB Market Ignored Moody’s Downgrade
Brian Romanchuk

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