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Macroeconomic research, teaching and advocacy
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The Weekend Quiz – August 8-9, 2020 – answers and discussion
Here are the answers with discussion for this Weekend’s Quiz. The information provided should help you work out why you missed a question or three!... -
The Weekend Quiz – August 8-9, 2020
Welcome to The Weekend Quiz. The quiz tests whether you have been paying attention or not to the blog posts that I post. See how you go with the... -
Fundamental lack of leadership vision in Australia’s response to the pandemic
Today, the Prime Minister of Australia indicated that the ‘effective’ unemployment rate in Australia is heading to 13 per cent as a... -
MMTed Q&A – Episode 10
Here is Episode 10 in our weekly MMTed Q&A series. This is the last episode in Season 1. We are experimenting with new formats and will be back... -
Tracing the roots of progressive views on the duty to work – Part 1
This will be a multi-part series and is part of the new book that Thomas Fazi and I are finalising. The series could have easily been sub-titled:... -
Latest data – largest quarterly output decline in recorded US history – but Europe is worse
The US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released the – Gross Domestic Product, Second Quarter 2020 (Advance Estimate) – data last week... -
The Weekend Quiz – August 1-2, 2020 – answers and discussion
Here are the answers with discussion for this Weekend’s Quiz. The information provided should help you work out why you missed a question or three!... -
The Weekend Quiz – August 1-2, 2020
Welcome to The Weekend Quiz. The quiz tests whether you have been paying attention or not to the blog posts that I post. See how you go with the... -
Setting things straight about the Job Guarantee
We need to get a few things straight. And this is partly for those out there who seem to think that the extent of literature on Modern Monetary... -
MMTed Q&A – Episode 9
Here is Episode 9 in our weekly MMTed Q&A series. In this episode, my special guest is Warren Mosler. We talked about the idea that taxpayers...