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tymoignee.bsky.social
Mostly my research output on the macroeconomic intersection of finance and the economy: public finance, private finance, past and present inner workings of monetary systems.
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ICYMI, I wrote a piece based on straightforwardly asking retired Bureau of the Fiscal Service employees to interpret a long Elon Musk tweet. Yes it takes an entire long piece to do that. Here's what they said. www.crisesnotes.com/i-asked-form...

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I somehow missed this incredible piece by @daveadenison.bsky.social when it came out in 2020. thebaffler.com/salvos/the-m...

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We are about to start our 8th trimester. We've more MMT/ecological economics students now than ever before. You could join us in June or Sept, regardless of your age or where you live. Any first degree or sufficient work experience would qualify you to enrol. modernmoneylab.org.au/courses/

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Just watched “Trading Places” with the kids. Boy, this is really a movie from a different era (N word here, F word there, black face, boobs, racist stereotypes, etc.). I was going for a comedy and a social satire with a twist of finance. Kids had fun but too much profanity for them.

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El Salvador's bitcoin payments experiment has ended after four years. Here's what the experiment taught us about bitcoin as money. My latest 👉 jpkoning.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

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Second round coming up 🔔: Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Expected to Examine Another Treasury System Next Week www.propublica.org/article/elon...

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Just out: " Chartalism in Ancient China: A Retrospective of Monetary Thought" by Zengping He. Open access at: read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article...

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This is now the banner for the article. I'm taking the rest of the day off. www.crisesnotes.com/treasury-sec...

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I translated Chapter 5 to 9 of Muller's "Versuche einer neuen Theorie des Geldes" ("Attempts at a New Theory of Money") (1816) via Google Docs. The book is centered around this figure ( Sachgeld = commodity money (precious metal coins), credit geld = credit money, geld = money) 1

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"There is nothing more important on the entire planet than getting Elon Musk and DOGE out of the Bureau of the Fiscal Service" www.crisesnotes.com/elon-musk-wa...

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As @nathantankus.bsky.social reports live from the govt payments coup... ...Elon is ofc, working w/ Visa to operationalize X for payments In 2023, he said X could "become the biggest financial institution in the world" (+ he wants to eliminate the CFPB) www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/t...

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As I wrote yesterday, where you at Fitch/Moody's/Standard and Poor's? stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/will-the-r...

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Colleague wanted to use Census data in an econometric lab today. Census dataset was down (403), "efficiency" czar strikes again ...😒

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Proud to have a guest post by the great Michael Kinnucan up on my blog, making the fundamental but underappreciated point that in the US, political parties (as most people imagine them) are illegal. jwmason.org/slackwire/po...

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The public debt hysteria disease is now inoculating the democrats.Prognosis is a fear of rising interest rate,a fear of loss of fiscal space,a fear that interest expenses will consume the entire budget,among others.Disease typically last about one political cycle. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...

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Thursday's blog post (30/01) is now posted (13:57 EAST) - The Case of the Missing Report - Part 2 - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62325 #mmt

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Here's what we have lined up for the first night of the SCOTONOMICS FESTIVAL of ECONOMICS 21st March. @dannydorling.bsky.social @dirkehnts.bsky.social @tymoignee.bsky.social just to get us going! Tickets available here: scotonomics.scot/event/festiv... Who fancies coming along?

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Monday's blog post (27/01) is now posted (16:10 EAST) - The Case of the Missing Report - Part 1 - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62317 #mmt

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The annual MML Economics of Sustainability series of FREE online public talks (and a Q&A) starts this week. As was the case last year, the line-up is terrific, and we are very grateful to all those who have agreed to take part. events.humanitix.com/economics-of...

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Our most recent conversation with a (fairly) prominent (and very nice bloke) government (treasury) economist ended up like this. He said, in essence, you are absolutely right where MMT is concerned, but it is not helpful for us to admit it. You would be amazed how many times this happens.

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

Coming up soon! Join a casual zoom Q&A session for anyone interested in our Economics of Sustainability courses to meet Steven Hail, Academic Director. Email [email protected] for the link - classes start Mon 17 Feb.

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