#118 Patricia & Christian: The People Vs Interest Rates

Patricia & Christian talk about recent media coverage of economic policy and answer listener questions on interest rates, trade, monetary policy and more.   Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/MMTpodcast   For an intro to MMT: Listen to our first three episodes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41742417   All our episodes in chronological order: https://www.patreon.com/posts/43111643   All of our Q&A episodes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/57542767 An Accounting Model of the UK Exchequer: https://gimms.org.uk/2021/02/21/an-accounting-model-of-the-uk-exchequer/ The Natural Rate of Interest Is Zero by Mathew Forstater and Warren Mosler: http://www.moslereconomics.com/wp-content/graphs/2009/07/natural-rate-is-zero.PDF Episode 43 - Sam Levey: Understanding Endogenous Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/35073683 A list of MMT-informed campaigns and organisations worldwide: https://www.patreon.com/posts/47900757   We are working towards full transcripts, but in the meantime, closed captions for all episodes are available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEp_nGVTuMfBun2wiG-c0Ew/videos   Show notes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/57589452