#142: Every Deficit Is Good For Someone - Unpacking The Deficit Myth Part 4

Part 4: Patricia and Christian continue their conversation about Stephanie Kelton's best-seller The Deficit Myth. In this conversation: the government's red ink is our black ink, and how the notion that government bond issuance "crowds out" private sector investment is inapplicable to a floating exchange rate currency.   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: Our first three episodes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41742417 Episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318   Our "Unpacking The Deficit Myth" series: https://www.patreon.com/posts/47191289   All our episodes in chronological order: https://www.patreon.com/posts/43111643   Quick MMT reads: Warren's Mosler's MMT white paper: http://moslereconomics.com/mmt-white-paper/ Steven Hail's quick MMT explainer: https://theconversation.com/explainer-what-is-modern-monetary-theory-72095 On government debt: "Some Numbers Are Big. Let Me Help You Get Over It": https://christreilly.com/2020/02/17/some-numbers-are-big-let-me-help-you-get-over-it/   Other things that came up in this conversation: Bill Mitchell on Britain's 1976 IMF loan: http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=33907 Episode 49 - Phil Armstrong: Where Does Money Come From? (Part 1): https://www.patreon.com/posts/36619334 Episode 50 - Phil Armstrong: Where Does Money Come From? (Part 2): https://www.patreon.com/posts/36846931 Episode 110 - L. Randall Wray: Are We Living In An MMT World?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/54750022   Episodes on monetary operations: Episode 20 - Warren Mosler: The MMT Money Story (part 1): https://www.patreon.com/posts/28004824 Episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318 Episode 13 - Steven Hail: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Banking, But Were Afraid To Ask: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41790887 Episode 43 - Sam Levey: Understanding Endogenous Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/35073683 Episode 84 - Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye & Neil Wilson: An Accounting Model Of The UK Exchequer (Part 1): https://www.patreon.com/posts/46352183 Episode 86 - Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye & Neil Wilson: An Accounting Model Of The UK Exchequer (Part 2): https://www.patreon.com/posts/46865929    Episodes on inflation: Episode 7: Steven Hail: Inflation, Price Shocks and Other Misunderstandings: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41780508 Episode 65 - Phil Armstrong: Understanding Inflation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/40672678 Episode 104 - John T Harvey: Inflation, Stagflation & Healing The Nation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/52207835 Episode 123 - Warren Mosler: Understanding The Price Level And Inflation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/59856379 Episode 128 - L. Randall Wray & Yeva Nersisyan: What's Causing Accelerating Inflation? Pandemic Or Policy Response?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/63776558   Job Guarantee episodes: Episode 4 - Fadhel Kaboub: What is the Job Guarantee?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41742701 Episode 47 - Pavlina Tcherneva: Building Resilience - The Case For A Job Guarantee: https://www.patreon.com/posts/36034543   Links to MMT scholarship by New Economic Perspectives: http://neweconomicperspectives.org/mmt-scholarship   MMT Academic Resources - compiled by The Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies: https://www.zotero.org/groups/2251544/mmt_academic_resources_-_compiled_by_the_gower_initiative_for_modern_money_studies   For online grad and postgrad courses MMT, visit Modern Money Lab: Website: https://modernmoneylab.org.au/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/modernmoneylab Economics of Sustainability graduate courses zoom Q&A sessions (16th / 17th August, 25th August, 2nd / 3rd September): https://modernmoneylab.org.au/events/   Updates about Professor Bill Mitchell's MMT 101 course will be posted here (we think!) - due to restart mid-September 2022: http://www.mmted.org/#   Sign up for alerts from The Gower Initiative For Modern Money Studies about their forthcoming MMT book: https://gimms.org.uk/   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   Transcript for opening monologue: https://www.patreon.com/posts/71264741?pr=true   Show notes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/71264759?pr=true