I recently sat down with New Zealand’s Minister for Climate Change, James Shaw. In addition to serving in parliament, Shaw hosts a podcast called What Comes After What Comes Next.
We talked for nearly an hour and covered a a lot of ground: MMT, the policy response to the pandemic, inflation, the macro outlook, and, of course, the climate crisis. Our conversation will be released soon. If you’re interested can subscribe to the show.
Thank you so much Stephanie. Activists have been trying here in NZ for years to get government ministers to listen, and I'm not at all miffed that it took a heavy hitting MMT'er from the USA to get them to listen.
Sorry, does New Zealand have a fiat currency?