I trust we're not losing the "lone voice" in Congress with his retirement. Certainly his stepping down is a great loss to "we the people." We need more Deficit Owls therein.
Stephanie Kelton writes, "Based on my own interactions with lawmakers on the Hill, I would estimate that roughly one-third of Congress is now MMT conversant."
How do we raise that ratio from one-third to at least one-half? Do we send every member of Congress a copy of The Deficit Myth? Should we develop a district-by-district campaign to educate Congress members and their staff? Should we develop a scoreboard (http://lerner-minsky.org/resources/functional-finance-scoreboard.pdf) to rate Congress members on their MMT-conversancy?
That's disappointing. Has he said negative things about MMT? I fell off listening to him earlier this year. Not for any particular reason, just took temporary a light break from podcasts.
A Question/Concern about Inflation due to Supply Chain Disruption:
Won't it be possibly be more permanent, because of trouble in China? Shouldn't then the US response be to use select technology, MMT Lens & possibly select skilled immigration to hugely increase Manufacturing in the US?
Also, does the $3.5T do much about affordable housing? (which depends on a lot more I gather).
I neglected to mentioned the many prayers we’ve offered for those devastated by tornadoes especially the people now suffering in Kentucky. May God have mercy.
This excellent podcast might interest you: https://realprogressives.org/podcast_episode/episode-140-what-if-we-lose-faith-in-the-dollar-with-john-harvey/#fwdmspPlayer0?catid=0&trackid=0
I trust we're not losing the "lone voice" in Congress with his retirement. Certainly his stepping down is a great loss to "we the people." We need more Deficit Owls therein.
From what I understand, his son might be considering running for congress.
#RobinAltman2022! :-)
🤣🤣🤣 (But I appreciate your support.)
Thank you so much for adding the Macro n Cheese to this blog post. Yarmuth and his son are national treasures.
We have nobody like that amongst UK lawmakers. 😩
not yet
Tom Pitman! Where have you been?!
Are you volunteering?
Stephanie Kelton writes, "Based on my own interactions with lawmakers on the Hill, I would estimate that roughly one-third of Congress is now MMT conversant."
How do we raise that ratio from one-third to at least one-half? Do we send every member of Congress a copy of The Deficit Myth? Should we develop a district-by-district campaign to educate Congress members and their staff? Should we develop a scoreboard (http://lerner-minsky.org/resources/functional-finance-scoreboard.pdf) to rate Congress members on their MMT-conversancy?
Unfortunately Thom Hartmann isn’t helping w/his fierce loyalty to Krugman
That's disappointing. Has he said negative things about MMT? I fell off listening to him earlier this year. Not for any particular reason, just took temporary a light break from podcasts.
Hello Stephanie;
A Question/Concern about Inflation due to Supply Chain Disruption:
Won't it be possibly be more permanent, because of trouble in China? Shouldn't then the US response be to use select technology, MMT Lens & possibly select skilled immigration to hugely increase Manufacturing in the US?
Also, does the $3.5T do much about affordable housing? (which depends on a lot more I gather).
Speed the day that we get naked monetary truth from a politician not intending to retire but actually seeking re-election.
I neglected to mentioned the many prayers we’ve offered for those devastated by tornadoes especially the people now suffering in Kentucky. May God have mercy.