MMP Blog #19: Effects of Sovereign Government Budget Deficits on Saving, Reserves and Interest Rates
Let us now begin to examine in more detail the government’s budget and impacts on the nongovernment sector.
Let us now begin to examine in more detail the government’s budget and impacts on the nongovernment sector.
Our next topic: government spending, taxing, interest rate setting, and bond issue. We will examine fiscal and monetary policy formation by a government that issues its own currency.
I had thought the distinction between real and financial (nominal) was clear—but obviously it was not.
The fundamental point to be made here is that the Euro arrangement was flawed from the beginning.
This week we examine bank clearing and the notion of a “pyramid” of liabilities with the government’s own IOUs at the top of that pyramid.