Posts Tagged ‘Warren Mosler

Warren Mosler’s appearance on CNBC has started a controversial debate in the midst of the fiscal crisis of Greece.
It all boils down to understanding monetary operations:

  • An ECB distribution to European States entails no issuing of debt;
  • Taxing functions to regulate demand, it does not actually collect revenue;
  • When China buys US Treasury securities, it makes no specific resource available to the United States: just moving a credit entry from one account to another;

And if you think: “oh, this is ridiculous, it just can’t be so easy!” think again and seek some answers on this website.

Please click here to watch the video footage of Warren Mosler on CNBC on 11 February 2010.


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 [...]