Modern Money Primer
MMP Blog #6: What Is A Sovereign Currency?
Beginning with this blog we will begin to develop our theory of sovereign currency.
MMP Blog #5: Government Budget Deficits are Largely Nondiscretionary: the Case of the Great Recession of 2007
Attempts to cut deficit spending presume that government budget deficits are discretionary. If only the government were to try hard enough, it could slash its deficit.
MMP Blog #4: MMT, Sectoral Balances and Behavior
In today’s blog we will go a bit deeper into the accounting, looking at the relation between flows (deficits) and stocks (debts).
MMP Blog #3: Recent USA Sectoral Balances: Goldilocks, the Global Crash, and the Perfect Fiscal Storm
This week we will take a little break from pure accounting, and apply what we’ve learned to a real world example.
MMP Blog #2: The Basics of Macro Accounting
You cannot possibly understand the debate about the government’s budget (and critique the deficit hysteria that has gripped our nation across the political spectrum from right to left) without understanding basic macro accounting.