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Ep 242 - Monetary Operations: Coordinated vs. Consolidated with Eric Tymoigne
Episode 242
Understanding how monetary sovereign governments create and spend money means looking at the Treasury department and the central bank or, in the US, …
2 years, 3 months ago
Ep 241 - The MMT Lens with Bill Mitchell
Episode 241
When someone associates Modern Monetary Theory with left or right wing politics, they’re signaling they know nothing of MMT and are simply associatin…
2 years, 4 months ago
Ep 240 - Can Unions Reclaim the Strike? with Joe Burns
Episode 240
“I think within every labor struggle is a kernel of a broader transformation of society. So, it's interesting because Harry Bridges, who was the long…
2 years, 4 months ago
Ep 239 - Triggered! with Stephanie Preston
Episode 239
Activists and organizers know that effective communication depends on connecting with people’s real needs. But we’re often baffled when people don’t …
2 years, 4 months ago
Ep 238 - RP Book Club Presents Pavlina Tcherneva's The Case For a Job Guarantee
Episode 238
RP Book Club spent four weeks on The Case for a Job Guarantee, by Pavlina R. Tcherneva. Each week featured a different guest expert who led the discu…
2 years, 4 months ago
Ep 237 - What's Bugging Mathew Forstater?
Episode 237
“...Because we recognize that taxes are not a funding operation, there's this myth that people who support MMT don't want to use fiscal policy to pro…
2 years, 5 months ago
Ep 236 - The Double Objective of Democratic Ecosocialism with Jason Hickel
Episode 236
The title of this week’s episode is taken from an article to be published in September’s Monthly Review. The author, Jason Hickel, talks to Steve abo…
2 years, 5 months ago
Ep 235 - Imperialism and the Global South’s Debt with Ndongo Samba Sylla
Episode 235
It will come as no surprise to our listeners that countries of the Global South are mired in a foreign debt crisis and that default is directly tied …
2 years, 5 months ago
Ep 234 - RP Book Club presents: Randy Wray's Making Money Work for Us
Episode 234
This week we’re bringing you all three sessions of the Real Progressives Book Club on L. Randall Wray’s Making Money Work for Us.
RP Book Club is run …
2 years, 5 months ago
Ep 233 - Managed Democracy and Inverted Totalitarianism in the USA with 1Dime
Episode 233
“People talk about campaign finance being the problem as to why ‘progressive’ politicians can't get elected. But that's more of an effect of this rat…
2 years, 5 months ago