Economics
Bill Mitchell: An MMT-Green New Deal and the financial markets – Part 2
In this part, I am briefly outlining what I think an MMT-Green New Deal agenda would encompass in the field of financial market changes. Read here
Bill Mitchell
Economics
Bill Mitchell: An MMT-Green New Deal and the financial markets – Part 1
When assessing public infrastructure investment “commercial yield” should not come into it. Read here
Economics
Bill Mitchell: On money printing and bond issuance – Part 1
Now that prominent mainstream economists have grudgingly accepted some of the elements of Modern Monetary Theory, they are simultaneously trying to discredit it to save face. Read here
Austerity
Bill Mitchell: The EU pronouncement of a Greek success ignores the reality
1. Real GDP has shrunk by 23.9 per cent since the crisis began and has been stuck around that mark since 2012. There has been virtually no growth at all since the trough was reached […]
Austerity
Bill Mitchell – German external investment model a failure
Germany funds much of its export surplus by exporting its own capital instead of investing it in its own nation. Much of this investment capital is either poorly invested or is lost. Thus being “export […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: We are approaching a period of fiscal dominance
The dissonance in mainstream economics and the political debate about policy settings is getting deeper and more public. Read here
Economics
Bill Mitchell: The Green New Deal must wipe out precarious work and underemployment
The numbers Bill uses are for Australia, but the must be familiar in most any European nation. Read here
Climate Crisis
Bill Mitchell: Modest (insipid) Green New Deal proposals miss the point – Part 2
The response to climate change can only be a robust economic, political, and social revolution, but we have a lot of people tinkering on the edges. Read here Read Part 1 here
Climate Crisis
Bill Mitchell: Modest (insipid) Green New Deal proposals miss the point – Part 1
The response to climate change can only be a robust economic, political, and social revolution, but we have a lot of people tinkering on the edges. Read here Read Part 2 here
Economics
Bill Mitchell: There are no financial risks involved in increased British government spending
The old rubbish seems to survive among journalists concerning state deficit spending being an economic sin. But in mainstream media journalists are not paid to learn and understand, but to propagate opinions and biases of […]