The MMT Podcast with Patricia Pino & Christian Reilly
The MMT Podcast offers economic analysis on current issues from a Modern Monetary Theory perspective. Aimed at anyone who has ever felt lost in the jargon used by mainstream economics commentators. We believe economics is for everyone.
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- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 70 minutes
- Episodes
- 209
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
#9 Patricia & Christian: MMT Activism, the Job Guarantee and automatic stabilisers
In their continuing mission to demystify economics, Patricia and Christian talk about spreading Modern Monetary Theory, watching/avoiding the UK budget, automatic stabilisers and an idea for an MMT a…
#8 Richard Murphy: Corbynomics And Labour's Fiscal Credibility Rule
Patricia and Christian chat with Richard Murphy, economist and author of The Joy Of Tax, about what the UK government deficit actually is: your money! We also talk about Corbynomics, Labour's Fiscal …
#7 Steven Hail: Inflation, Price Shocks And Other Misunderstandings
Patricia and Christian chat with Dr Steven Hail, MMT economist and author of "Economics for Sustainable Prosperity" about where your money goes when you pay your taxes. Spoiler alert: nowhere! Also u…
#6 Nathan Tankus: What makes a currency valuable?
Christian Reilly interviews Nathan Tankus, research scholar at the Modern Money Network (MMN) in the US to find out how currencies work and what makes them valuable - and also about exchange rates, i…
#5 Rohan Grey: A Job Guarantee vs a Universal Basic Income
Christian Reilly and Patricia Pino interview leading US activist and president of The Modern Money Network Rohan Grey on the efforts to push through a job guarantee. How does it compare to a Universa…
#4 Fadhel Kaboub: What is the Job Guarantee?
Patricia Pino and Christian Reilly interview Dr Fadhel Kaboub, President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity to discuss the new policy advocated by MMT activists which is generating d…
#3 Why we can always afford a war
Patricia Pino and Christian Reilly discuss Government ‘debt’ and explain why politicians never ask “how are you going to pay for it?” when it comes to war.
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#2 Monetary Sovereignty
What does it mean to be Monetarily Sovereign and why does it matter?
Patricia Pino and Christian Reilly discuss how some erroneous mainstream economic concepts are confusing us and undermining our un…
#1 A hypothecated tax for the NHS?
Christian Reilly and Patricia Pino explain why we don't need a hypothecated tax for the NHS, and why it’s so damaging to believe that we do.
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