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Professor Kevin Dowd On The Problem With MMT, Banking’s Lack Of Capital And Free Markets
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English - December 04, 2020 09:03 - 50 minutes - 43 MBInvesting Business News Business News finance investing economics Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this show, I talk with Professor Kevin Dowd. He is professor of finance and economics at Durham University and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He has written extensively on the history and theory of free banking, central banking, financial regulation, and monetary systems. His books include Private Money: The Path to Monetary Stability, Laissez‐Faire Banking and Alchemists of Loss: How Modern Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System. In this podcast we discuss:
Was government intervention in 2020 the right thing to do? The capital problems of the banking and insurance sectors Why free banking (no/light regulation) works The problem with MMT Why debt levels matter How negative rates could hurt