The theory that money emerged naturally encourages people to believe free markets are natural systems in which governments only interfere. But this thinking is flawed, writes Steven Hail from TorrensUni.
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Today's The New Daily column: The Future Gas Stragey will demolish Australia's climate change project.
thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2024/0…

Interest rate aren’t the only way to control inflation - if we lower the price of child care, medicine & uni degrees then the CPI would fall & life would be cheaper…and if your’e worried about the budget deficit…scrap the $14bn per year in fossil fuel subsidies #auspol #climate

If the ALP Government is unprepared to raise JobSeeker enough to take people out of poverty, then it should feel obliged to introduce a Federal Job Guarantee.

Don't leave people involuntarily unemployed and yet still punish them with the lowest benefits in the OECD.

It is cruel

An excellent article by Gittins.

'So the real question is why the government doesn’t want to fix JobSeeker. Well, it’s no secret. It might be the right thing to do, but there are no votes in it.'

This fine article was co-authored by Rigo Melgar, who we are proud to have as a lecturer on our TorrensUni Modern Money Lab program in the economics of sustainability.

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Gareth Hutchens is a national treasure.

By the way, we are doing a couple of talks in the next 2 weeks. This week will be mainly old hat if you are familiar with MMT, but you will be welcome anyway if you would like to come along.

events.humanitix.com/the-importance…

“Finding the Money” sleeper hit at DC Labor FilmFest; read more here bit.ly/3JXozdy AFI Silver Sara Nelson FINDING THE MONEY Film Stephanie Kelton

FINDING THE MONEY Film But for the moment, here we are, at Modern Money Lab and TorrensUni modernmoneylab.org.au/courses/ torrens.edu.au/courses/busine…