@DeficitOwls

Citizens supporting full employment and price stability. Pushing back on deficit hysterians. Modern Money Theory (MMT). @OwlReserveArmy and @ModernMoneyMeme

 All fiat currency governments.
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But MMT adds nothing new to the conversation, they said!! We all knew all that already, they cried!!!
Burgess Everett
@burgessev29 Sep 2021
New Manchin statement says he's made clear to Biden and Dem leaders "that spending trillions more on new and expanded government programs, when we can’t even pay for the essential social programs, like Social Security and Medicare, is the definition of fiscal insanity"
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Government spending happens FIRST and it only happens with money. Later, as that money filters into people’s savings, the government sells bonds in order to change those savings into forms that savers prefer, i.e. bonds instead of money.
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If prices were going to rise, it would have happened earlier in the story: either when the government bought goods and services, potentially bidding resources away from other uses by offering a higher price; or when private actors spent that money, before it ended up in savings.
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So can you see why the Trillion Dollar Platinum Coin proposal would not be inflationary even though it’s “printing money?” Levels of government spending and taxing would be the same in either case. We’re only talking about what form savers hold their savings in. #MintTheCoin
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We issue our own currency. There is no “underlying debt problem.”
Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦
@JessicaBRiedl19 Sep 2021
Replying to @JessicaBRiedl
All 8 major deficit reductions laws since 1985 were attached to debt limit bills. Congress should raise the debt limit, but attach some good-government reforms to address the debt and budget gimmicks so that we're actually treating the underlying debt problem (3/)
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From our library: A Job Guarantee Would Set An Effective Minimum Wage. youtu.be/4qLhVy-uRU0?list=PL…
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From our library: Won't We End Up Like Greece? youtu.be/knpqLRW0HkM?list=PL…
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From our library: What Modern Money Theory Is NOT Saying. youtu.be/51Arlvr45kY?list=PL…
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From our library: Difference Between Currency Issuer And A Currency User. youtu.be/mODnz8DnhCQ?list=PL…
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From Neoliberalism to Social Justice: The Feasability of Full Employment in Tunisia - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…

From Neoliberalism to Social Justice - Fadhel Kaboub, 2012

The educated unemployed youth of Tunisia have played a crucial role in the 2010 uprisings that have sparked revolutions across the entire Arab world (and beyond...

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From our library: A Gold Standard Reduces Domestic Policy Space. youtu.be/3OJFjzckZYM?list=PL…
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From our library: The Issuer Of The Currency Can Always Purchase Anything For Sale. youtu.be/-LOwJ2H_hD4?list=PL…
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From our library: Unemployment Is Created By Government And Can Only Be Solved By Government. youtu.be/NBgfAV78yII?list=PL…
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The Rise of Money and Class Society: The Contributions of John F. Henry - levyinstitute.org/pubs/wp_83…
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From our library: Difference Between Currency Issuer And A Currency User. youtu.be/mODnz8DnhCQ?list=PL…
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From our library: Against Free Banking: The Liability Side Isn't The Place For Market Discipline. youtu.be/PyYYrIcgYJ4?list=PL…

Against Free Banking: The Liability Side Isn't The Place For Market Discipline

Warren Mosler, former banker and investor, discussing bank regulati...

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From our library: How Could Euro Nations Start A New Currency? youtu.be/V2iBD1x5ofw
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From our library: The Job Guarantee and Inflation. youtu.be/3OIQMo4O1vA?list=PL…
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