CBO—Still Out of Paradigm after All These Years
Gold-standard thinking is inapplicable to a sovereign, currency-issuing government operating under flexible exchange rates.
Sovereign Fiat Currency
Playing Monopolis Monopoly: An inquiry into why we are making ourselves so miserable
Why does it seem like there isn’t enough money to pay for the things we really need? Is it really true? Are we really too poor to put America back to work making and building the things we need to maintain a prosperous nation?
RP Live – Money and the Limits of Sovereignty with Scott Ferguson
RP LIVE presents a talk by Scott Ferguson, followed by Q&A. Scott Ferguson serves as editor for The Money on the Left Editorial Collective. He is a research scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainability Prosperity and co-host of Money on the Left podcast. Scott holds a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Film Studies. REGISTER HERE
Rethinking Fiat Money
This may sound like the plot for a Dickensian novel but, in fact, it is a precise description of what I think of as rethinking the reality of modern fiat money—a rethinking that enables collective society to achieve the full potential of its profit-making and not-profit making endeavors.
Macroeconomic System for Climate Change
Enables a sovereign government to spend whatever fiat currency is necessary to enable and assist its collective society to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
Functional Fiscalism
What I am going to imagine here is an argument that a progressive politician (for example, someone associated with a new Biden administration) could make in support of direct government spending to address a serious challenge to our collective well-being. By “direct” government spending I imply spending which is not “paid for” by garnering either …
The Millennials’ Money
Modern fiat money, once it becomes a “visible reality” for more and more people, can’t help but become a force for positive change in our political discourse and collective future.
Ayn Rand and the Missing Gun
Ayn Rand might be dead wrong, but that hasn’t stopped her ideas from having a profound effect in Congress.