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
Austerity
Frances Coppola: The terrible price of austerity
Was Hitler the product of austerity? In her blog Frances Coppola asks if austerity played an important role in Hitler’s rise to power. She comes to the conclusion that it did and warns: “Learn from […]
Geopolitics
Jack Hunter: Criticizing Israel? This definition of antisemitism will take care of that
Speech codes are popping up all over the US, chilling the right to question what another government is doing thousands of miles away Read Article HERE Photo: Wikipedia
Climate Crisis
Irene Casado Sanchez, Jackie Botts – A program meant to help developing nations fight climate change is funneling billions of dollars back to rich countries
‘Climate finance’ from the global north to the global south is just high-interest loans, sometimes tied to obligations to source materials for green projects from rich countries. In ‘Reuters’. Read the article HERE.
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