The Crypto Crisis
The latest cryptocurrency crash illustrates why the entire financial sector needs to be subject to democratic control.
The latest cryptocurrency crash illustrates why the entire financial sector needs to be subject to democratic control.
MMT’s account of the origin of money is a useful corrective to the stories told by orthodox economists. But a deeper history of the social construction of money opens up more radical possibilities for rethinking the monetary order.
In terms of crisis governance, the United States is not a country with a central bank. It is a central bank with a country.
The bank bailouts began a crisis of legitimacy that shows no signs of abating. And few issues illustrate the dominance of economic power over participatory democracy better than central bank independence.