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Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Bill Mitchell – Investigation into BBC bias misses the point really

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This week, the British Broadcasting Commission (BBC) released the results of an independent review into its coverage of economic matters – R...
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The EU’s Response To Biden's Inflation Reduction Act Is Finally Here — Felicity Bradstock

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Tax credits. Oilprice The EU’s Response To Biden's Inflation Reduction Act Is Finally Here Felicity Bradstock  Also at Oilprice Gold Dem...

"Objectivity Has Got To Go": News Leaders Call For End Of Objective Journalism — Jonathan Turley

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Advocacy journalism is a euphemism for propaganda. JonathanTurley.com "Objectivity Has Got To Go": News Leaders Call For End Of Ob...
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Why I prefer perpetual/premium bonds to the platinum coin — JP Koning

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 To my mind, issuing consols as JP Koning suggests is the simple solution and to be preferred over the coin, which has no precedent and appe...
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Inflation has peaked, the supply side is recovering, and the interest rate rises were for what? — Bill Mitchell

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So the IMF has come late to the transitory inflation party. What was obvious months ago is now at the forefront of IMF forecasts. Better lat...
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Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Reuters — ECB can't go bankrupt even it suffers losses

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ECB President Christine Lagarde lets the cat out of the bag. “As the sole issuer of euro-denominated central bank money, the Eurosystem will...
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China bans export of core solar panel technologies — Jeff Pao

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In a mirror image of what the United States has been doing with semiconductor lithography technology, China has recently amended its rules t...
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Russia’s “Sanction-Proof” Trade Corridor to India Frustrates the Neocons — Conor Gallagher

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This is a huge deal not because of avoiding sanctions but because of its impact on world trade, the global economy, the Global South and Eas...
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Economic forecasting—why it matters and why it is so often wrong — Lars P. Syll

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The problems that economists encounter when trying to predict the future really underline how important it is for social sciences to incorpo...
Monday, January 30, 2023

How They Paid for the War — Sam Levy

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I am certainly not the first person to point to wartime mobilization as a model for our response to climate change. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez...
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Russia and Iran launch payment system as an alternative to Swift — Middle East Eye

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Iran and Russia have linked their banking systems, a senior Iranian official said on Monday, a move that will allow the two heavily sanction...

The "National Debt" is No One's Fault — Stephanie Kelton

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Let's stop the finger-pointing and have an honest conversation. Neither side is responsible for our debt crisis, because there isn't...
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Cargo cult economics — Chris Dillow

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Even a little "MMT" thrown in. Of course, a wealth tax would raise money. But the government does not need money: it can print as ...
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The common currency for the Mercosur — Matias Vernengo

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Lula's visit to Argentina, during the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) meeting, brought about a brief discussio...

Russia’s gas union eyes Pakistan, India — M. K. Bhadrakumar

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The big growth in this century is expected to be in Asia, including Central Asia and Southeast Asia, and Africa — unless the West can either...
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Core Inflation Woes — Brian Romanchuk

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Alex Williams recently wrote “ What Is ‘Core PCE Services Ex-Housing’ Anyway?, ” which dissects the measure that the Fed is using to get a h...
Sunday, January 29, 2023

British voters depressingly caught between a rock and a hard place — Bill Mitchell

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Britain is now in a very undesirable state. The governing Tories are bereft of any sensible ideas and likely to lose the next General electi...

‘Tombstone for a Tombstone’: Dealing with the ‘bad science’ behind mainstream criticism of MMT — Phil Armstrong

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The problem with conventional economics is that it requires that the "settled methodology" define both the questions and how they ...
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Friday, January 27, 2023

Russia’s intentions are clarifying — Alasdair Macleod

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Gold ruble in the works? Longish. Many details. Speculative so far. Sergei Glazyev has apparently shifted from a commodity basket toward int...
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Thursday, January 26, 2023

Hyman Minsky and the IS-LM obfuscation — Lars P. Syll

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Setting the record straight. New Keynesianism (typified by Paul Krugman) is not Keynes, nor is it a faithful rendition of John Hicks either....
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Can You Smell What the Year of the Rabbit Is Cooking? — Pepe Escobar

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The New Silk Roads, or BRI, as well as the integration efforts of BRICS+, the SCO and the EAEU will be on the forefront of Chinese policy. S...
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For US, foreign arm sales boom amid Russian invasion, Chinese intimidation — Lee Ferran

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Total US arms transfers for fiscal 2022 topped $50 billion, up nearly 50 percent from prior year. "Winning bigly." MICIMATT (Mili...
Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Bill Mitchell — Bank of Japan continues to show who has the power

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Its been around 9 months since the central banks of the world (bar Japan) started to push up interest rates. This reflected a return to the ...
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Goodbye empire? US sanctions are failing in the face of multipolarity — Felix Livshitz

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Published by the Council on Foreign Relations NGO, Foreign Affairs provides space for officials within the US military industrial complex to...
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Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Debt, Deficits, Secular Stagnation and the Which Way Is Up Problem in Economics — Dean Baker

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Dean Baker does some MMT — sort of, anyway. CounterPunch Debt, Deficits, Secular Stagnation and the Which Way Is Up Problem in Economics Dea...

Mike’s prediction from 2016

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  Nothing has changed since… This current “debt ceiling!” episode could be the big one… 🤞
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Migrating to Mastodon and some additional announcements — Bill Mitchell

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Today, I have a few news and information items. First, I detail how to migrate to Mastodon so that you can continue to follow me as I escape...

MMT And Banking — Brian Romanchuk

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Since I am in the Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) camp, I cannot write a book on baking without covering some of the critiques of MMT and banki...
Monday, January 23, 2023

The Most Egregious Mistake — Alastair Crooke

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The situation is more complicated than this but Alastair Crooke brings out some key factors. There were actually two big mistakes that he me...
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A Second Civil War — Aidan Simardone

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The article is really about the economic "war" underway in the US between rural and urban areas rather than mostly political diffe...
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