Claire Connelly details why a Job Guarantee is superior to a Universal Basic Income (UBI).

Dr Steven Hail spells out the underlying principles.

Dr Steven Hail writes that, contrary to conventional economic thinking, government surpluses don't benefit the economy.

The problem with providing for an ageing population is not the money, it is the real goods and services, writes Dr Steven Hail.

We are constrained by technology and natural resources, among other things, but a limited supply of dollars is a political myth, writes Dr Steven Hail.

Australian monetary policy effectiveness is on the decline. Dr Steven Hail suggests policies that would get our economy back on track.

Dr James Juniper, in a paper prepared for Modern Money Australia, lays out the issues and solutions for the policies and planning required for dealing with the economic and social consequences of the Coronavirus pandemic.

The only things driving growth has been declining household consumption growth and some state government public infrastructure projects. The former is declining sharply now because of flat wages growth, record debt levels and falling wealth on the back of plunging real estate prices.

Why a household budget needs to get its funds from income or borrowing is nothing like the budget of a government that isues its own currency.

Provides a detailed analysis of the investment the federal government would have to make to introduce a Job Guarantee. You will see how surprisingly small that investment is.

This self-defeating strategy – failing to use the most effective policy tool in favour of an ineffective tool is the neoliberal way. It is the recipe that New Keynesian macroeconomics offers. It is mindless, ideological nonsense and the problem is that it is not the top-end-of-town that suffers from the negative outcomes that follow. Quite the opposite in fact.

The sort of desperation that central bankers now face as governments shunt the responsibility of counterstabilisation onto them while claiming that achieving fiscal surpluses is the brief of the treasuries.

There is no particular necessity to match public deficits with debt-issuance for a currency-issuing government and deficits should be accompanied by monetary operations which we now call Overt Monetary Financing (OMF).

Superannuation is mostly a con. It involves the funnelling of vast amounts of wealth from wage-earners to the financial sector, and continues the neoliberal project of fracturing and individualising our hopes and ambitions.

Dr Martin Watts , in a paper prepared for Modern Money Australia argues that the issuance of government bonds to match federal deficit spending is unnecessary, and that the government should simply stop issuing them and adopt a mechanism known as Overt Monetary Financing (OMT).

Ellis Winningham discusses what treasury bonds are, their function in the gold standard era, how they operate in today’s free-floating fiat currency regime and why they should no longer be issued.

Sovereign governments do not need revenue in their own currency in order to spend. Prof Wray details their actual purpose.