New Economic Perspectives
MMP Blog #9: What If the Population Refuses to Accept the Domestic Currency?
The best kind of payment is an obligatory one—one that must be made to stay out of prison, or to avoid death by thirst. An obligatory payment that must be made in the sovereign’s own currency will guarantee a demand for that currency.
MMP Blog #8: Taxes Drive Money
In short, to avoid the penalties imposed for non-payment of taxes (that could include prison), the taxpayer needs to get hold of the government’s currency.
MMP Blog #7: What Backs Up Currency and Why Would Anyone Accept It?
This week, let us take a peek behind the currency. Is there anything there, other than the Fed Chairman’s—how shall we put it—family jewels?
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.