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).
In today’s blog we will go a bit deeper into the accounting, looking at the relation between flows (deficits) and stocks (debts).
This week we will take a little break from pure accounting, and apply what we’ve learned to a real world example.
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.
This primer seeks to fill the gap between formal presentations in the academic journals and the informal blogs. It will begin with the basics to build to a reasonably sophisticated understanding.
Jared Bernstein, longtime economic advisor to Joe Biden asked the MMT academics some questions. They answered.
Part 1 reviewed basic balance-sheet mechanics. This post begins to apply them to the Federal Reserve System (Fed).
If you cannot put your reasoning in terms of a balance sheet, there is a problem in your logic.