UWFB: Rate Your Employment Services Provider

10 July 2020

Ever had that kind of relationship where you either get parked or creamed? With guest, David O’Halloran, Kevin Gaynor & Anne delve into the nitty-gritties of employment “services”. We also consider the potential of a #JobGuarantee, and pause to lament the departure of Comrade Morrison.

Inside the Monetary Chook Shed

26 June 2020

Kevin & Anne discover the secret ingredients to a well-managed economy are not so different from what make a great pasta. Meanwhile, our guest George Pantelopoulos helps us work through some of our collective trauma around fixed exchange rates.

To Issue Or Not To Issue Bonds?

12 June 2020

What is the connection between federal government spending, the national “debt,” and government bonds? Our guest, Emeritus Professor of Economics, Martin Watts sorts out that tangle, and saves Kevin’s future grandchildren from debt enslavement.

No ordinary student

22 May 2020

What is it about a job guarantee that could rock your world and macro-economics? We speak with the economist who came up with the idea of a job guarantee in the midst of the great upheavals of the 1970s, Professor Bill Mitchell. 

(Drawing by Jolyon Gray.)

The Party We All Missed

10 April 2020

What happened in 1983 that affects how we manage our emergence from the Covid-19 lockdown? In this episode, Anne & Kevin talk, and talk, and talk, and finally Joshua Dalton of Modern Money Australia gets a word in, and then they talk some more about why all the government spending in response to the Covid-19 is not creating a debt we will have to pay back. 

We delve into a discussion paper by Percapita, which can be found here.

Post-Pandemic Economy

24 April 2020

Speaking with a founding intellectual of Modern Monetary Theory, puts our little show ahead of the media curve -- Professor Bill Mitchell, who critiques the government's stimulus packages. We remember the Raise the Rate campaign, and using decent macro, we look forward to the future! With appearances by economist Dr. Steven Hail, and unemployment activist, Alex North.

An Economy for Everyone During a Pandemic

10 April 2020

Anne and Kevin speak with Dr. Steven Hail, lecturer in economics at the University of Adelaide. As a result of the coronavirus we are all in lockdown -- consuming less, perhaps learning more about Modern Monetary Theory! Businesses are in the process of shedding hundreds of thousands of workers, and overseas supplies are drying up. What can we expect? What immediate action can the government take? How can we take care of everyone in Australia? How can we do a better job of this in the future?

Coronavirus (COVID-19) and the Economy

27 March 2020

We are all going through a major crisis with the Coronavirus pandemic. This crisis is having a huge effect on our economy. The good news is, if you apply a Modern Monetary Theory understanding of macroeconomics, you will see what capacity the federal government has to deal with this crisis. Everyone can understand this, and be ready to demand no less from our government.

The Story of Money

13 March 2020

Kevin & Anne with special guest Jengis Osman discuss the orgins of currency, and how it works in the Australian economy.  If it doesn't grow on rich people as the neoliberals tell us, and it doesn't come from a hole in the ground like the goldbugs tell us, where does money come from?

Unemployed Workers and Macro-economics

14 February 2020

What is macroeconomics? Why does mainstream, orthodox economics get it so wrong? Why was it unable to predict the "Great Financial Crash" (GFC)? What is the alternative, heterodox economics, as bequeathed to us by John Maynard Keynes, the "father" of macroeconomics? How are students bringing the revolution in economics to their campuses?

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