By Stephanie Kelton
Our friend Lambert Strether is having a fundraiser and we at NEP want to support him the way he supported us more than three years ago. We hadn’t met before, but Lambert wrote to ask if we would come to Washington, DC as an antidote to the “fiscal sustainability teach-in” that Peter G. Peterson was hosting. We agreed, and Lambert set about raising money and interest in the event. Warren Mosler, Bill Mitchell, Randy Wray, Pavlina Tcherneva and I all participated.
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[lambert blushes modestly]
I would be really remiss if I didn’t point out the key role played by Correntian Joe Firestone, who took point on the conference. That said, had there been no Corrente site or Corrente community — the garden where I do the planting and the weeding and even the fertilizer distribution 😉 — the conference (original transcripts) would not have taken place; several Correntians stepped up to help out and even traveled to DC. I should also mention the role played by Selise in processing the video and producing finished transcripts.
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Also, I couldn’t make it down to the Manhattan MMT presentations this fall, which I really regretted. At our 2010 conference, seeing Mitchell, Kelton, Mosler, Auerback, Wray, and Tcherevna sitting at the same table and interacting with the audience and each other was like watching the tightest rock and roll band ever trading riffs in a small hall. Everything was totally honed. It should surprise nobody that MMT is starting to get real traction given the quality of its proponents.
OK Lambert, I donated since you are a great guy and one of the few to notice my absence from NC 🙂
I used “take point” instead of “got the ball rolling” for the role Joe Firestone played partly because that was the metaphor for “initiated” back in the day when I worked in cube, but also because I wanted to work in a quote from Homage to Catalonia to suggest what the Occupiers call pre-fguration, but I couldn’t find one. So this will have to do: