Always a pleasure speaking to Dimitris Dimitriadis at Byline Times. A great piece on Disaster Capitalism in Ukraine. My comments below 👇🏽
bylinetimes.com/2022/05/20/dis…
@Ddimitriadis_ @BylineTimes But Kaboub says that the ABCD traders are “gatekeepers” of a world order that continues to prevent the Global South from developing its own food sovereignty, while giving big producing countries and traders immense influence and leverage over prices.

bylinetimes.com/2022/05/20/dis…

D’autres estiment que la problématique révèle des défaillances structurelles de l’économie tunisienne, à remettre en question, selon Fadhel Kaboub, professeur d’économie à l’université @DenisonU aux Etats-Unis. Il prône un programme de réformes, beaucoup plus orienté vers....

https://twitter.com/LeMonde_Afrique/status/1524002962342875136

... l’aide aux agriculteurs plutôt que la subvention vers les consommateurs « afin d’assurer une souveraineté alimentaire et d’équilibrer le recours à l’importation », la promotion des énergies renouvelables, « pour être une fois de plus, moins dépendant...

#MMT #Thread on floating #FX
Flexible exchange rate policy is something a country grows into as it builds higher degrees of #resilience to external shocks via food/energy #sovereignty, high value-added industries & other institutional measures to fight #speculation #corruption.. and price gouging... So a higher degree of monetary sovereignty is something a country earns via strategic investments/regulations; it's not something you announce, float the currency, and hope for a miracle. All MMTers understand this.

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#ESG #MMT #GreenJobs #PublicBanks #GND First off, #GISPfellow Amir Khaleghi presents the latest updates from the #GreenJobs report

@tracyalloway @bronwynwilliams Come on Tracy, I know you are skeptical about MMT, which is fine/healthy in general but you should be better informed now than in March 2019 to RT your original post. Here is a quick thread:
1/ See Odd Lots with @tracyalloway & @TheStalwart: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… @tracyalloway @bronwynwilliams @TheStalwart 2/ My more recent framing of MMT in the Global South:
3/ A recent open letter on African Economic & Monetary Sovereignty signed by 100s of scholars/activists (many from the Global South): MES-Africa.org via @Mon_Sovereignty

#MMT & #Inflation One more time for the people in the back (or without a search engine). #Thread
Read this @FTAlphaville piece by @stf18 @NathanTankus & @rohangrey: ftalphaville.ft.com/2019/03/01/155…
Here's my way of framing the conversation. 1/n

https://twitter.com/MichaelRoddan/status/1289357721540497411

If you've been in a coma for the last 12 years, you need to catch up on your central banking a bit:
"Fed has no reliable theory of inflation, says Tarullo" on.ft.com/3hXmj5N
2/n

#Thread
#MMT economists have been saying for decades that a #JobGuarantee is an automatic stabilizer. When the private sector is laying off millions of workers, the Federal government must step in as the employer of last resort. You take people as they are, where they are, and you do on-the-job paid training at a living wage & benefits for anyone ready, willing, and able to work. During a #pandemic, one of the most important jobs under the #JobGuarantee system is to #StayHome.

#Thead
I get asked questions like this all the time "Is #MMT consistent with a post-capitalist system? #Socislism? #Imperialism? XYZism?"
MMT is compatible with any political system. 1/n #MMT is an analytical approach that carefully estimates how much fiscal policy space a country has to meet its national priorities without causing #inflation. 2/n

#THREAD
So if you have any doubt about this being a #ParadigmShift, check this out. A colleague from the humanities is teaching a social science class this semester. She decided to introduce her students to different theories about #money. 1/n Naturally (dare I say?), a basic intro to #MMT was in order. One of the sources was episode 2 of the @MMTpodcast by @christreilly (a comedian) & @PatriciaNPino (an engineer) discussing #MMT & #MonetarySovereignty. 2/n
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Ten #MMT tips to remember on #TaxDay:
1. Federal #taxes don't fund federal spending, so let's #decouple these two important tools.
2. Taxes offset #Government spending. 3. It's a matter of #logic: #dollars must be spent into existence (by the Gov) first, in order for us to use some of those $ to pay taxes
4. #Taxing for #revenue is for local states/municipalities, not the #sovereign issuer of the #currency.

Hi @HeerJeet. Sorry, but you're way off on #MMT. Not necessarily your fault. It's been a well coordinated operation by mainstream forces to smear MMT and its progressive policy ideas, to misrepresent our views without citing a single MMT academic source. 1/n

https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1106036894423568384

what do you expect when you invite non-MMT economists to explain something that they never bothered to research? The MMT literature is publicly available & is bulletproof. Asking readers to take ur word for it just because ur name is Summers/Rogoff/Krugman is not gonna do it 2/n