To update our Spanish friends:
In an effort to bring MMT into the political debate in Spain, APEEP will be hosting Warren Mosler for his presentation of the Spanish translation of his book “The Seven Deadly Innocent Frauds of Economic Policy” during a one-week tour through Spain, starting with a presentation in Madrid, on the 14th of September; Valencia on the 15th of September; and Vila-real on the 17th of September.
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Part 1 of an interview with Randy Wray for attactv in Spain. Randy is explaining Modern Money Theory.
Teoría Monetaria Moderna – Randall Wray – Parte… by attactv
For our Spanish speaking friends… Randy has an interview in the Spanish publication el Diario where he is talking about employment guarantee programs. You can view it here.
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The full interview with NEP’s Randy Wray by EKO de Público TV in Spain. This is the complete interview. Questions from the interviewer are in spanish. Randy’s responses are subtitled in spanish. This was recorded on March 6, 2015 as part of his introduction of the spanish version of the Modern Money Primer.
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Randy’s presentation for FUHEM in Madrid, Spain coinciding with the release of the spanish version of his Modern Money Primer. The introductions are in spanish and Randy speaks in english beginning at about 10:00 with a panel member translating to spanish. He presents Modern Money Theory and then what is wrong with the Euro/EMU.
By William K. Black
Bloomington, MN: January 11, 2015
Sometimes it is the little things than make everything clear. The WSJ gem I ran across explains so much about what is wrong about economists and the Wall Street Journal. The headline of the January 9, 2015 article foreshadows the strong chance that the reader is about to be transported into a strange dimension: “Weak Industrial Data Suggest Eurozone Economy May Be Faltering.” I don’t know how to break this to Murdoch’s minions, but the word “may” is hilarious and “faltering” is a euphemism. Here’s the money quote.
By William K. Black
(Cross posted from Benzinga.com)
Spain’s conservative government, eager to change the media’s emphasis on its repudiation in recent EU elections, has launched a media campaign stressing its adoption of an aggressive “stimulus” program. Spain’s conservatives – and their predecessors the so-called socialists – are infamous for embracing the troika’s demands for austerity. Why have the Spanish conservatives finally admitted that austerity is a disaster and stimulus is essential? They have not done so. Instead, they have rebranded “austerity” as “stimulus.”
“MADRID—Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is planning to launch a €6.3 billion ($8.59 billion) economic stimulus package, a move to keep sky-high unemployment and the risk of deflation from derailing the country’s recovery.
Mr. Rajoy told 200 business leaders at a conference in Sitges, near Barcelona….”
This is the third and final installment of a series of columns discussing the latest harmful policies and articles about eurozone deflation. This column discusses the March 31, 2014 article in the New York Times entitled “Another Worrisome Drop in Euro Zone Inflation.” I have already discussed the extraordinary sentence in the article in which the head of the European Central Bank (ECB), Mario Draghi, is cited as claiming that deflation is desirable for eurozone nations suffering Great Depression levels of unemployment. Draghi claims that deflation will cause reductions in working class wages and prices that will lead to increased exports and economic recoveries. I explained in prior columns that this is contrary to the ECB’s written policies and economic theories and the views of virtually all economists. The NYT article does not report these facts.
I posted an article earlier today on the demented memes about eurozone deflation U.S. financial journalists parrot after talking to Brussels’ troika-trolls. That article used the latest AP story to illustrate my points.
I promised a second installment that used a New York Times article (not sourced to AP) that was posted last night to illustrate the meme. The NYT article is simultaneously more complex and more alarmingly analytically awful than the AP piece.
This morning brought two April Fools’ Day articles about France and Italy that are also about the gratuitous second Great Recession (in the core) and the second Great Depression (in Spain, Italy, and Greece) inflicted by the troika’s infamous austerity dogmas. This article discusses one sentence from last night’s NYT piece that notes the position on deflation of the head of the European Central Bank (Mario Draghi). The NYT article misses the significance of the passage. I show how the passage, particularly when read in conjunction with quotations from Draghi’s fellow troika-trolls in the articles about France and Italy, reveals the troika’s fanatical devotion to failed dogmas and the clueless nature of U.S. financial journalists covering the eurozone who continue to treat the trolls like savants.
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The troika has consigned one-third of the Eurozone to a gratuitous Great Depression
I have written several articles recently describing Spain’s continuing Great Depression levels of unemployment and the absurdity of the troika’s policies with regard to the “threat” presented by “deflation.” The troika consists of the European Commission, the European Central Bank (ECB), and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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Tagged depression, France, Italy, mario draghi, Ollie Rehn, spain, troika
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