"Central bankers are not detached, objective technocrats, but powerful political actors, whose decisions favour the powerful, and hurt the weak."

Ann Pettifor: https://annpettifor.substack.com/p/technocrats-as-handmaidens-to-authoritarianism

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“The government can always finance its spending by creating money.”
~Hyman Minsky, economist

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“A sovereign government does not need to collect taxes or issue bonds to finance spending. It finances directly through money creation.”

– Eric Tymoigne is an associate professor of economics at Lewis & Clark College, NY, who specializes in the fields of #money and #banking, monetary theory, and financial macroeconomics

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Sovereign states invest or spend as much as they want by issuing they own money and credit.

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