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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 4613921" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p>heres a quote not that you can read anyways:</p><p></p><p>Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) was developed to explain the logic of running government budget deficits to increase demand in the economy’s consumption and capital investment sectors so as to maintain full employment. <strong>But the enormous U.S. federal budget deficits from the Obama bank bailout after the 2008 crash through the Trump tax cuts and Coronavirus financial bailout have not pumped money into the economy to finance new direct investment, employment, rising wages and living standards</strong>. Instead, government money creation and Quantitative Easing have been directed to the finance, insurance and real estate (FIRE) sectors. The result is a travesty of MMT, not its original aim.</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>By subsidizing the financial sector and its debt overhead, this policy is deflationary instead of supporting the “real” economy. The effect has been to empower the banking sector, whose product is credit and debt creation that has taken an unproductive and indeed extractive form.</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>This can clearly be seen by dividing the private sector into two parts: The “real” economy of production and consumption is wrapped in a <strong>financial web of debt and rent extraction – real estate rent, monopoly rent and financial debt creation. </strong>Recognizing this breakdown is essential to distinguish between positive government deficit spending that helps maintain employment and rising living standards,<strong> as compared to “captured” government spending to subsidize the FIRE sector’s extraction and debt deflation leading to chronic austerity.</strong></p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://michael-hudson.com/2020/04/the-use-and-abuse-of-mmt/[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 4613921, member: 56035"] heres a quote not that you can read anyways: Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) was developed to explain the logic of running government budget deficits to increase demand in the economy’s consumption and capital investment sectors so as to maintain full employment. [B]But the enormous U.S. federal budget deficits from the Obama bank bailout after the 2008 crash through the Trump tax cuts and Coronavirus financial bailout have not pumped money into the economy to finance new direct investment, employment, rising wages and living standards[/B]. Instead, government money creation and Quantitative Easing have been directed to the finance, insurance and real estate (FIRE) sectors. The result is a travesty of MMT, not its original aim. [B]By subsidizing the financial sector and its debt overhead, this policy is deflationary instead of supporting the “real” economy. The effect has been to empower the banking sector, whose product is credit and debt creation that has taken an unproductive and indeed extractive form.[/B] This can clearly be seen by dividing the private sector into two parts: The “real” economy of production and consumption is wrapped in a [B]financial web of debt and rent extraction – real estate rent, monopoly rent and financial debt creation. [/B]Recognizing this breakdown is essential to distinguish between positive government deficit spending that helps maintain employment and rising living standards,[B] as compared to “captured” government spending to subsidize the FIRE sector’s extraction and debt deflation leading to chronic austerity.[/B] [URL unfurl="true"]https://michael-hudson.com/2020/04/the-use-and-abuse-of-mmt/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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