By: Andrea Terzi

You may think that the Fed, the central bank of the U.S., has complete control, or at least some control of how many banknotes circulate in the economy. The fact is that the Fed has no power in this.

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By: Andrea Terzi

If you think wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were a gigantic waste of money, chronic unemployment in peacetime may be even worse! War raises output and unemployment is not an efficient allocation of our resources. Read the rest of this entry »

By: Andrea Terzi

There are no ’scarce resources’ causing the financial crisis and the global recession! And yet, no self-correcting force is likely to operate soon. In a “money crisis”, only political authorities (who are the ultimate monopolists of money) can provide effective answers. And to be effective, these should be based on out-of-the-box thinking.

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3rd Mecpoc symposium

When: 20 April 2010

Where: Franklin Auditorium

  • John: Mr. Mosler - I understand and agree with your explanation of the U.S. monetary system. I also agree [...]
  • Zachary Levy: "And without a switch to a command type economy, it’s impossible to have complete full employment. [...]
  • warren mosler: The Russian default was a typical fixed exchange rate blowup. The ruble was fixed at 6.45 to the [...]
  • Robert Searle: I think when we are talking about banks, and money we are actually discussing ELECTRONIC DATA. T [...]
  • Jonathan Stanford: Was the foreign USD debt burden enough to bring Russia to insolvency during the 1998 crisis? Because [...]