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
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Bill Mitchell: What matters about the Paradise Papers
This is another lengthy piece by Bill Mitchell, but well worth taking the time to read. As he writes: “the problem of tax avoidance and evasion is not fiscal. Progressives get stuck on that point. […]
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Politico: How Europe’s biggest media company infiltrated the EU
How Bertelsmann mixes business, philanthropy and Continental politics. Read here
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Bill Mitchell: Fiscal policy paralysis and ECB credibility in tatters
Last week, the EU finance ministers (the ‘Eurogroup’) met (June 13, 2019) in Luxembourg as part of their regular schedule. There was a lot of talk in the lead-up to the meeting whether Emmanual Macron’s […]
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