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Q: What is the logical thing to do for someone arrogant enough to presume that his ideas are worth telling, boring enough to repeat the same ideas to all his long-suffering friends and acquaintances,...

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Flaunting bad to distract from worse: the zero-deposit diversion

A dangerous old mortgage product is picking up steam again amongst Australian banks: the so-called ‘zero deposit home loan’. The offer is usually some variation on the same general themes: borrow up to...

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The Origin of Currencies (or: the deficit-savings equality)

This is the first of a series of introductory posts I would like to make to avoid cluttering future commentary with superfluous explanation. It is well known but poorly understood that our currency...

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Deflating the inflation fear: an introduction to inflation in the modern...

I explained in my last post the zero-sum relationship between net savings, public debt and the balance of trade, and that since government budget deficits do not need to be financed the only danger of...

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Never a Waste of Taxpayer Dollars (Ever)

If there’s any bad habit that transcends political alignment it is denouncing government projects as a “waste of taxpayer money”. If you’ve been following my posts on deficit spending and inflation you...

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The Flow of Funds

I’ve made an diagram of how money flows around in the modern monetary system, and added some MMT propaganda around it for effect. I plan to make reference to it an upcoming post, but for now it’s just...

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Unemployment, Welfare and Minimum Wage

The most visible indicators of macroeconomic health are related to employment and welfare. A healthy economy is recognisable as one in which anyone willing to work can find a suitable job with a fair...

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Talking money

I’m going to be at GhengisCon next weekend speaking on a panel about digital economies. The topic is “A discussion of digital economies, WoW gold, EVE ISK, Secondlife Lindens, OM$ and bitcoins. How are...

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Extended trading hours and the retail labour market

This was a rather rushed article for a local newspaper. I thought some readers here might be interested too. In the public debate surrounding Western Australia’s highly regulated retail trading hours...

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[Don't] Give austerity a chance

Stephen Kirchner and Robert Carling plead us to give austerity a chance, citing Alesina and Ardgana’s work on fiscal adjustment to show that austerity is as likely as fiscal stimulus to be followed by...

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