One question that continually comes up when I do interviews is this: If governments are not financially constrained in their spending why do they issue debt?
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Bill Mitchell: Why do currency-issuing governments issue debt? – Part 1
Corruption
The Guardian: Iceland PM sold bank assets hours before financial crash, leaks show
The current prime minister of Iceland sold over a million Euros in assets in the Glitnir bank just hours before the the state took control of the collapsing bank in 2008 Read here
Geopolitics
Turkish Minute: Senator urges US gov’t to protect Syria’s Kurds from threats by Turkey
US Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican, has called on the US government to prevent possible threats from Turkey and an alliance of rebel groups that have ended the years-long rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad […]
Climate Crisis
BBC: Britain – Heathrow drone protest: Five arrested over planned disruption
When the police step in in this fashion you know you have hit a nerve. Read here
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