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#048 Anne & Kev: MMT Is Kryptonite for DOGE

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2025/03/14

We return to the MMT basics, because the MMT understanding of money is about the only factual argument that can counter the DOGE mentality. Factual argument alone cannot withstand the powerful drivers of oligarchy, but MMT neutralises one of their main weapons -- the "deficit myth". MMT reveals that the DOGE slashing of government services to "save" our "taxpayer money" is ideological bunkum. Theme MusicPleading Ignorance, by Ed Kuepper, from the album Starstruck. Additional AudioToo Many Things, by

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#047: Superbonus! The Ferrari of All Tax Credits

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2025/02/28

Let's say you are a country with high mass unemployment. And let's say you are a country whose housing stock is badly in need of a thermal upgrade. What would you do?In 2020 Italy introduced a scheme called the Superbonus, to deal with just these issues. Was it a success? And where did they get the 160 billion euros? Show NotesModern Money Lab (courses, events)Superbonus - Strengthening of the Ecobonus and Sismabonus for energy efficiency and building safetyFun With Emojis (youtube) by James

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#046: Make Ann&Kev Grumble Again

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2025/02/14

Anne and Kev apply the MMT lens to the news of the day.Kev reflects on the development of the Labor Party from a workers' party to a populist party. Anne Looks at the billionaires and multi-national corporations that behave like they can tell governments what to do. And Kev goes out on a limb with his MMT-informed predictions for MAGA America. Show NotesElon Musk’s Hostile Takeover | Lever Time (podcast)Notes on the Crises (substack)Nathan TankusTime to outlaw the credit rating agencies (blog

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#045: Rohan Grey: Digital Money. Is It Going To Spy...

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2025/01/24

You've probably heard the buzz words:- cryptocurrency- central bank digital currencies, CBDCs- stable coins- digital wallets- e-cashWhat's it all about? Is there anything to the hype, or to the alarm? Law professor, Rohan Grey, takes a well-honed MMT machete to some of the confusion that has sprung up around these new money-like technologies, and he clears the way for us to make informed decisions about the kind of society we want to live in. Show Notes Modern Money Network (organisation)"We keep

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#044: The Luigi Mangione Alternative

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2024/12/27

Worried about the multiple crises we are living through? Housing, cost of living, inequality, poverty, food waste, species extinction, floods, bushfires... People smarter than us know how we can de-grow towards a sustainable, circular economy. And we will be much happier and healthier as a result!We hear from some of those smart people -- Dr Mark Diesendorf, Dr Marilyn Waring, and Dr Steven Hail -- in an excerpt from a podcast called The Sustainable Hour, hosted by Mik Aidt. Anne agrees it is all

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#043: Trump, & Public Money - Public Good

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2024/12/13

This week Kevin discusses some of the implications of the return of Trump with fellow MMTers, Jackson and Kent. Could there be some unforeseen advantages having a right wing maniac in the US drivers seat, or is this just an optomistic fantasy? This raises the question: what is the purpose of money? The consensus we come to is that money should be a public utility used for the public good. However to make that happen we need to organise. Public Money, Public Good.

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#042: Steven Hail: Fear and Chaos in America

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2024/11/22

Anne asks economist Dr. Steven Hail, what do we have to fear from Project 2025? The answer might surprise you. What's more, we answer the implied question. If most of our political leaders, economists, bureaucrats etc do not understand how the monetary system works, then how is it the system works as well as it does? (Of course we could be managing our monetary system, and our economy, so they serve people and planet a lot better than they currently do.) Show Notes Project 2025 (chapter 24) Lever

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#041: Owen Bennett: When Labour Lost The Plot

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2024/11/08

For a short time, for a mere three decades, Australia came close to securing the foundations for a truly egalitarian society. Economic historians look back upon this era as "The Golden Age". Full employment was the key to this shared prosperityYet in a shocking betrayal of workers, labour activists abandoned the struggle to eliminate involuntary unemployment. Why? And can we return to a full employment economy? Show Notes The Hawke-Keating Hijack : the ALP in transition, by Dean Jaensch (book) Trove

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#040: Owen Bennett: The Shocking Betrayal Of Workers...

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2024/10/25

Human and planetary flourishing is possible despite the multiple crises we face. One solution at our fingertips is a "full employment economy". What stands in the way of implementing this solution? Not money. We can financially afford an economy where everyone has the amount of paid work they want. Political will is the obstacle. In fact Labor are heading in the opposite direction in their efforts to increase the rate of unemployment.We speak with Owen Bennett, who believes he has found the Labor

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#039 Anne & Kev: Protecting the Purity of the Central...

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2024/10/11

Can anyone explain why we have a "per capita recession"? Anne & Kev can't help noticing the government is in surplus and not spending enough of our public money, and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is putting a high price on money. Could it be the Labor government is more interested in the optics than the actuality of being good economic managers? Could it be that interest rate decision-making isn't much more than a puritanical morality play?Anne & Kev have a good crack at both fiscal and

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#038 Martha & John: Economic Repair Is A No-Brainer

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2024/09/27

If the Labor party opens the neoliberal door a crack, and the Liberal party kicks that door off its hinges, how do we fix that gaping hole through which the destructive winds of inequality and climate destablisation continue to blow? Neither of our major parties in Australia seems willing to do so.The answers are pretty straightforward. Any handyman could tell you, "it's a no-brainer". Although, the politics is not... unless we organise! ShownotesAustralia's welfare is 'breeding a nation of

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#037 Worst Neoliberal Policy Ever

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2024/09/13

With the help of Martha Knox-Haly, and John Haly, we examine the worst ever neoliberal policy that continues to inflict suffering on hundreds of thousands of Australians. Just how airy-fairy are the economics behind this policy, and how could unions and Labor governments have fallen for all this? Show Notes Fiat Socialism by Carlos García Hernández (book review) How Labour Built Neoliberalism by Elizabeth Humphrys (book) The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton (book)Choosing unemployment: what of job

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#036 What Happens When a Nation Abolishes Money?

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2024/08/23

Mainstream economists continue to scare "monetarily sovereign" governments away from spending enough of their own currency to meet the needs of their citizens, by invoking the debt and default bogeyman. They use these bogeyman stories to keep us hobbled by unnecessary austerity policies. One such story is what happened under the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia.Even mainstream economists usually don't recommend getting rid of money altogether!Cambodia attempted to to this. Given the opportunity, would

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#035 Rosie: How To Be A Climate Activist

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2024/07/26

[This episode contains content which some people might find distressing. This includes discussion of strip searches and incarceration. Please take care and use discretion.] How brave do you need to be, to be a climate activist? You don't have to be a "disrupter" like Rosie, but her story of a day in the life of a "non-violent, direct, disruptive" climate activist with Blockade Australia is gripping and encouraging. And don't forget: MMT is a description of the monetary system. It is also a framework

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#034 Phil Lawn: Confiscate Economic Rents

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2024/07/14

One of the greatest dangers that monetary systems present to a democratic society is the phenomenon of "economic rents". Economist Phil Lawn reminds us this battle over economic rents is a century-old debate. This battle plays out in newspaper headlines about the housing crisis to this very day. And we oldies slow down to delve into Phil's unique take on the "cost to live". Show Notes Gold as a Peace CurrencyJul 8, 2024from a Q&A session with Professor Michael Hudson hosted by Karl Fitzgerald Theme

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#033 Phil Lawn: The Time Traveller's Purse

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2024/06/28

With great power comes great responsibility, and according to heterodox economist Phil Lawn, modern money comes with the greatest power of all -- the ability to time travel.It is this ability to bring the future into the present, that has been harnessed by a few lucky individuals, such that Australia’s 47 billionaires now have more wealth than the bottom 7.7 million Australians. Billionaires in space is just a symptom of a bigger problem. Billionaires have taken control of the time machine we call

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#032 Kev and Kent: Sound On For Solidarity

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2024/06/14

The best way to support RadioMMT is to make a donation during the 3CR Radiothon this June.To talk all things solidarity, Kev is joined in the studio by Kent Getsinger, union organiser with Victorian Allied Health Professionals Association (VAHPA). Kent is a regular at the SPAG-Naarm pub nights and student of MMT-style economics. Anne phones in from where she has been self-isolating with a cold, to discuss the connection between MMT, solidarity, and fire ants!Thank you to our lovely, generous

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#031 Karl Fitzgerald: A Return To The Commons

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2024/05/24

Anne is away and leaves Kevin to run the show alone. Risky, however Kevin enlists past 3CR presenter and progressive economist, Karl Fitzgerald from Grounded, to speak about Community Land Trusts. This is a community scheme to reclaim housing for public use for those who need it, a return to the concept of The Commons. After that Kevin explains his affection for the Polish economist, Michal Kalecki, and his theory of income distribution.

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#030 Kev and the Attention Economy

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2024/05/10

Anne sets Kev a challenge based on how MMT is presented in the mainstream media. And we dissect some typical discussions about money, as heard on social media. Theme MusicPleading Ignorance, by Ed Kuepper, from the album Starstruck. Additional Audio Too Many Things, by Ed Kuepper, from the album Starstruck. ABC_Q+A11th of March, 2024Tech Giants, Generational Divides & Gaza Aidwith appearance by economist Stephanie Kelton Freakonomicsepisode 585, 24th of April 2024Stephen J. Dubner interviews

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#029 Andy: Inflation. Spend Less? Spend More? Stop?

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2024/04/26

Central banks are sent to battle inflation, equipped only with "nuclear-interest-rate-bombs". How might the federal government take a more nuanced approach? Should it stop spending, spend less, spend more?Maybe it should take note of the three-Cs of managing inflation -- causality, capacity, & creativity -- as heard only on RadioMMT, in this conversation with Andy the data analyst. Shownotes"MMT in a post-COVID world", ANZ On Air, July 2021 Fadel Kaboub, MMT economist Andy's graph takes the wind out

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