Stephanie Kelton on Modern Monetary Theory’s Goals for Full Employment and Government Deficits

We talk to Stephanie Kelton, Chair of the Economics department at University of Missouri-Kansas City, about the economics behind Modern Monetary Theory (MMT).

 

Labor Day Has Been Rendered Completely Meaningless (Happy Serf Day)

Washington’s Blog
Monday, September 5, 2011

Labor Day … Or Serf Day?

As I noted in 2008:

A highly-regarded economist (Michael Hudson, Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, who has advised the U.S., Canadian, Mexican and Latvian governments as well as the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, and who is a former Wall Street economist at Chase Manhattan Bank who also helped establish [...]

U.S. Census Bureau finds that for the first time, married couples are no longer a majority

WASHINGTON — Married couples have dropped below half of all American households for the first time, the Census Bureau says, a milestone in the evolution of the American family toward less traditional forms.

Married couples represented just 48 percent of American households in 2010, according to data being made public Thursday and analyzed by the Brookings Institution. This was slightly less than in 2000, but far [...]

There’s Another Crisis Coming as Long as Banks Remain Above the Law: Bill Black

A federal jury convicted Lee Farkas, the former Chairman of Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp., Tuesday for his role in a $2.9 billion fraud that led to the fall of his company and that of former Top 50 bank Colonial Bank. Farkas was found guilty on all 14 counts of conspiracy and bank, wire and securities fraud. He now faces life in prison.

More than two years after the financial [...]

Michael Hudson: Why Government is More Afraid of Debt than Depression

Deficit Hawks One Two Punch

By Michael Hudson

December 16, 2010
Why Government is More Afraid of Debt than Depression
Michael Hudson: Deficit Hawks Want a One Two Punch Against the Economy

Transcript
PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay, coming to you today from New York City. Now joining us is Michael Hudson. He’s a distinguished research professor at University of Missouri – Kansas City. [...]