By Matthew Berg
The central insight of the sectoral balances model of the economy is that not all sectors of the economy can net-save at the same time. That means that if all those of us in the private sector in aggregate want to (on net) take in more money than we spend, then some other sector will have to spend more money than it receives. In a simple three sector version, the three sectors are the domestic private sector, the government sector, and the foreign sector.
Posted in Guest Blogger
Tagged bubble, Financial crisis, Hyman Minsky, MMT, Modern Monetary Theory, wynne godley
By William K. Black
(Cross posted at Benzinga.com)
We are in the midst of the blame game about the “Sequester.” I wrote last year about the fact that President Obama had twice blocked Republican efforts to remove the Sequester. President Obama went so far as to issue a veto threat to block the second effort. I found contemporaneous reportage on the President’s efforts to preserve the Sequester – and the articles were not critical of those efforts. I found no contemporaneous rebuttal by the administration of these reports.
Posted in William K. Black
Tagged austerity, blame game, MMT, Modern Monetary Theory, obama, sequester
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