Macro N Cheese
272 episodes - English - Latest episode: 17 days ago - ★★★★★ - 120 ratingsMacroeconomics has never been so ... delish! Macro and Cheese explores the progressive movement through the lens of Modern Monetary Theory, with hot and irreverent political takes, spotlights in activism, and the razor sharp musings of Real Progressives Founder and host Steve Grumbine. The cheese will flow as experts come in for a full, four course deep dive into the hot queso.
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Defining Value with L. Randall Wray
April 06, 2024 12:00 - 53 minutes - 67.5 MB**RP Book Club is beginning a new series, Sunday April 7, 14, and 21, at 3pm ET/12pm PT. Register once for all three sessions. realprogressives.org/event/rp-book-club-the-communist-manifesto/2024-04-07 L. Randall Wray talks with Steve about the concept of value in the context of MMT. Randy discusses the labor theory of value and the liquidity premise theory, saying both approaches are critical to understanding how money works in a capitalist economy. Randy looks at the historical developme...
Class, Capitalism, and MMT with Bill Mitchell
March 30, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 85.3 MBA hundred years ago, John Maynard Keynes predicted we would see a massive expansion of growth and productivity under capitalism. Bingo. He got that right. He said this amazing efficiency would result in a shorter work week with far more leisure time for everyone. Oops. Not so much. The structure of capital ownership will never permit it. Bill Mitchell’s blog post, Keynes Was Wrong Because He Failed to Consider Class Conflict, was the inspiration for this episode. Bill talks with Steve about...
Finding Your Why with Steve Grumbine
March 23, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 107 MBThis episode of Macro N Cheese is dedicated to Steve’s mom, Joan Grumbine. Her kindness, love, and unwavering dedication to her family and community will be deeply missed. May she rest in peace. In his first solo episode, our host and jefe, Steve Grumbine, recounts the story of his political transformation from conservative republican to passionate MMT advocate, to self-identified socialist. He begins the episode talking about his recent experience dealing with the medical system as his mo...
There Is No Magic Pricing Fairy with Brian Romanchuk
March 16, 2024 12:00 - 54 minutes - 79.8 MB** Be sure to check the Real Progressives website’s calendar for upcoming events. On Sunday, March 17th at noon ET/9am PT, we’re hosting a webinar, RP Live with Esha Krishnaswamy: Putin’s Russia. On Tuesday evenings, 8pm ET/5pm PT, come to Macro ‘n Chill, where we listen to the most recent episode of this podcast and discuss it with the community. https://realprogressives.org/rp-events-calendar/ “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, in the sense that it is and can be p...
Demystifying Sellers Inflation with Yeva Nersisyan
March 09, 2024 12:00 - 59 minutes - 87.9 MBThe American people see through mainstream claims of “the greatest economy ever.” They are confronted by evidence to the contrary every day. Steve and his guest, economist Yeva Nersisyan, take a deep dive into the current US economy, looking at the repercussions of the high costs of education, healthcare, and housing. They discuss different perspectives on the causes of inflation and talk about Isabella Weber’s work on “sellers’ inflation” and its relationship to monopoly power. They argue...
Les Milei with Daniel Conceição
March 02, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 94.4 MB** Reminder: You are invited to listen to and discuss this episode with friends from Real Progressives on Tuesday, March 5th. Find the Zoom link at https://realprogressives.org/rp-events-calendar/ “If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.” — Victor Hugo Daniel Conceição talks with Steve about Argentina’s economic immiseration under newly elected president Javier Milei. Milei’s aggressive cut...
Is Marx Still Relevant? with Steve Maher
February 24, 2024 12:00 - 54 minutes - 80.4 MB**To discuss this episode among friends, come to our listening party, Macro ‘n Chill, on Tuesday February 27th at 8pm ET/5pm PT. For the link go to our Events Calendar https://realprogressives.org/rp-events-calendar “But fortunately for us, human nature is precisely the capacity to be creative; to imagine a different way of living together and to bring that into being through our conscious and deliberate actions by working together, by fighting for a different world against the class power ...
Deconstructing the Colonial Archetype with Fadhel Kaboub
February 17, 2024 12:00 - 56 minutes - 84.6 MB** If you haven’t yet come to our Tuesday night listening party, this is the week to do so. Join the Real Progressives community as we dive in and discuss this episode. The registration link is posted on our Events Calendar prior to each Tuesday’s session — it’s usually up by Saturday. Look for Macro ‘n Chill. https://realprogressives.org/rp-events-calendar/ This week Steve talks with our friend, economist Fadhel Kaboub. Followers of this podcast will recognize some of the themes we regular...
State of the Not So Free Press with Mickey Huff
February 10, 2024 12:00 - 57 minutes - 84 MB“We've been trying to get people to stop saying ‘mainstream media.’ I’ve got to do it now too, for the same reason that you just described: because there's nothing mainstream about 90 percent of the media being controlled by 6 private, for-profit corporations or 5 other big tech companies. There's nothing mainstream, or Main Street, about the ideas and the views that they platform. It's corporate media or establishment legacy press, and then there's independent media which means very little....
How Are We Going To Pay For It with Geoff Ginter, Rohan Grey, and Yeva Nersisyan
February 03, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 114 MB“...the question of how to pay for it is a very complicated question but has much less to do with money than it does to do with social structure and industrial structure. And the quicker we can get away from centering the taxpayer as the goose that holds the golden egg money and more towards the questions of labor and industrial structure that are really going to affect how we provide healthcare, I think we're going to be in a better place.” — Rohan Grey In 2022, Real Progressives helped ou...
Mission: Inflation with Warren Mosler
January 27, 2024 12:00 - 56 minutes - 83.4 MB**Transcripts and “extras” are available for each episode of Macro N Cheese on our website: https://realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese-podcast/ This podcast’s followers know we cover a range of topics from political theory to international events, but at some point, we always circle back to Modern Monetary Theory. This interview with Warren Mosler was originally recorded for “Let’s Get Ready to Grumble,” Steve’s show on Status Coup. As with any Mosler episode, this one is appropriate for...
Practical Applications with Joshua Dávila, the Blockchain Socialist
January 20, 2024 12:00 - 47 minutes - 69.1 MBWhen we hear the term “blockchain,” we immediately think of libertarians and capitalists. Crypto bros. They have been dominating that space but they don’t hold a monopoly on it, and our guest, Joshua Dávila, AKA The Blockchain Socialist, refuses to cede the ground. In this episode he and Steve discuss the need for bridging the gap between technical knowledge and social understanding because blockchain technology can be a valuable organizing tool for socialists. Joshua suggests creating coll...
Redefining Work with Tyler Emerson
January 13, 2024 12:00 - 54 minutes - 77.5 MBOne of the many exciting things about a federal job guarantee is its transformative potential in reshaping society's understanding of work and value. It can provide a dignified job for people in every possible situation with every ability and disability. Of course that’s not all we love about the FJG. In this episode, Tyler Emerson and Steve also discuss the job guarantee’s preventative possibilities in tackling social and environmental crises. Tyler is one of the younger generation of MMT ...
Wall Street’s War on Workers with Les Leopold
January 06, 2024 12:00 - 52 minutes - 77.7 MB**Every Tuesday evening, Real Progressives hosts a virtual listening party for the current episode of Macro N Cheese. All are invited to join our informal discussion where we share insights on the topic at hand. If someone has questions, we will help find the answers. Get the registration link each week by visiting our events calendar: https://realprogressives.org/rp-events-calendar/ Before the 1980s, mass layoffs were often tied to economic recessions. Today, they are shrewd corporate stra...
The Case For Palestine with Dan Kovalik
December 30, 2023 12:00 - 45 minutes - 64.4 MBIn his third appearance on Macro N Cheese, Dan Kovalik talks with Steve about his upcoming book, The Case for Palestine: Why It Matters and Why You Should Care. As with many of our guests, the episode is more of a conversation – a passionate one – than an interview. “First of all ... this conflict did not begin on October 7th, though we're led to believe it did. This conflict – well, it depends on when you want to say it started – but certainly a good starting place is 1948 in the Nakba, wh...
RP Live Presents: Confronting Green Colonialism with Hamza Hamouchene
December 23, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 126 MB“We cannot talk about colonialism, green or otherwise, about dismantling it, about decolonization, about environmental and climate justice in the Arab region, and turn a blind eye to the ongoing genocide, the ethnic cleansing, the mass displacement, the mass slaughter and the repression of Palestinians perpetrated by the racist apartheid settler colonial state of Israel with the active support and abetting by imperialist powers — from the United States to the European Union, to France, to Ge...
Enshittification: A Monopoly Story with Cory Doctorow
December 16, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 91.4 MBAccording to Wikipedia, “Enshittification, also known as platform decay, is the pattern of decreasing quality of online platforms that act as two-sided markets. Enshittification can be seen as a form of rent-seeking. Examples of alleged enshittification have included Amazon, Bandcamp, Facebook, Google Search, Quora, Reddit, and Twitter.” Wikipedia also tells us the term was coined by today’s guest Cory Doctorow. Steve and Cory discuss his new fiction book, The Lost Cause, which explores tru...
IMPACT: Climate Reparations with Fadhel Kaboub
December 09, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 100 MB**If you’ve been enjoying – and learning from – this podcast for the past five years, you’ll want to know about the end of the year fundraiser for Real Progressives. For the rest of 2023, your donation will be fully matched by a generous supporter. If you donate $100 or more, you get a free t-shirt. We count on our community to help us pay for the equipment and platforms to bring you this important content. Donate here or go to our website, realprogressives.org Fadhel Kaboub is back for hi...
Death by Inequality with Stephen Bezruchka
December 02, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 93.6 MB** Come Chill with us! Every Tuesday at 8pm ET/5pm PT, we gather on Zoom for a listening party and discussion of the recent episode of this podcast. Look on our Events Calendar for the new Macro ‘n Chill registration link each week. https://realprogressives.org/rp-events-calendar/ The consequences of income inequality extend far beyond economic disparities. Stephen Bezruchka focuses on its effect on health. Stephen is on the faculty of the School of Public Health at University of Washington...
Dying for Capitalism with Charles Derber
November 25, 2023 12:00 - 58 minutes - 84.9 MBCharles Derber, author of "Dying for Capitalism", talks with Steve about the intersectionality between capitalism, environmental destruction, and militarism. He argues that the capitalist system, particularly in its neoliberal form, is inherently connected to the threats of environmental catastrophe and war. He emphasizes the historical context of these connections, tracing the shift from water-powered capitalism to coal and then oil as a means to maintain control and avoid public opposition...
Radical Political Economists on Palestine with David Fields
November 18, 2023 12:00 - 55 minutes - 79.4 MBDavid Fields talks to Steve about “Economists for Palestine,” the statement released by the Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE). They emphasize economists’ responsibility to take a stand against the genocide being perpetrated against the Palestinians. They look at the connection between Zionism and the global capitalist system, debunking misinformation while highlighting the difference between antisemitism and anti-Zionism. We at Macro N Cheese urge our listeners to circulate the s...
Dismantling Green Colonialism Part 2 with Hamza Hamouchene
November 11, 2023 12:00 - 45 minutes - 65.9 MB**Welcome to Episode #250! This represents 250 straight weeks of work on this podcast. We couldn’t have managed without our diligent team: Steve Grumbine, host and head honcho, Andy Kennedy, audio engineer, editor and producer, Virginia Cotts, Julie Alberding, Jonathan Kadmon, Commie John Siener, and Tim O’Neill, who create show notes, art, transcripts, and a whole section of extra information and links to resources. We have now added a bonus event, Macro ‘n Chill, a weekly Zoom meeting whe...
Dismantling Green Colonialism Part 1 with Hamza Hamouchene
November 04, 2023 12:00 - 52 minutes - 76.1 MBWhen we talk about the climate crisis, common wisdom says we’re all in it together. That implies that everyone is responsible, and everyone needs to do something about it. Our guest, Dr. Hamza Hamouchene, attacks this notion unequivocally: “The historical responsibility, of course, in the climate crisis lies within the industrialized capitalist West.” Most of the impacts are felt by communities in the global South, in countries that have been impoverished since colonial times. As developing ...
RP Live Presents: Inside a Failed State Q & A with Michael Hudson
October 28, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 131 MBThis week’s episode is another webinar from our RP Live series: Inside a Failed State, with Michael Hudson. Michael prefers a Q&A format. Attendee questions revolved around US political economy, domestic and global. He discusses topics such as healthcare, de-dollarization, and the impact of economic policies on the working class. He emphasizes the need for a change in economic philosophy and highlights the government's ability to create money for social programs. A common Hudson theme is t...
Degrowth and MMT with Christopher Olk and Colleen Schneider
October 21, 2023 12:00 - 48 minutes - 70.8 MB**Tuesday, October 24th, join us for an informal Zoom meeting where we will be listening and discussing this episode. 8 pm ET/5 pm PT. Find the registration link at https://realprogressives.org/event/macro-n-chill-247/ As a society we are conditioned to believe we can f*ck with nature, with the living world, but the economy is immutable. We dare not try to change it. As MMTers we say: hahahahaha... *sob* These two assumptions explain why we’re hurtling towards ecological catastrophe and wh...
Fiat Socialism... The Convergence with Carlos García Hernández
October 14, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 85.6 MB**Don’t forget to register for Macro ‘n Chill. Come listen to the episode together and discuss it on Tuesday evening at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT. This week’s registration link is at https://realprogressives.org/event/macro-n-chill-246/ Carlos García Hernández is the author of Fiat Socialism: Achieving the Goals of Socialism through Modern Monetary Theory. He lays out the five goals of fiat socialism: Full employment Full and prudent use of material resources The guarantee of the five essentials t...
Decolonizing Our Minds with Fadhel Kaboub
October 07, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 89.7 MB**Tuesday evenings, Real Progressives and friends gather on Zoom for a listening party and discussion of Macro N Cheese. To register, go to the events calendar on our website and look for the upcoming Tuesday: https://realprogressives.org/rp-events-calendar/ This week’s episode welcomes back Fadhel Kaboub, a valued friend of this podcast. He and Steve discuss the concept of just transition and the problems with carbon markets as a solution to climate change. They stress the injustice of his...
The Trouble with Lula with Daniel Conceição
September 30, 2023 12:00 - 46 minutes - 66.9 MBA head of state whose economic policies promote austerity and fiscal responsibility is: Conservative Progressive N/A (not applicable) Daniel Conceição is with us for his third visit to Macro N Cheese. He and Steve discuss the failures of both right and left governments. Some broad strokes of Brazil’s historical patterns are not so different from those in the US. The last left(ish) president, Dilma Rousseff, abandoned her Leninist roots and hopped aboard the privatization train. It wasn’t...
RP Live presents: Africa’s Quest for Economic Liberation with Ndongo Samba Sylla
September 23, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 139 MB“The impossibility of economic catch-up does not imply that the citizens of the global South are condemned to suffer from poverty and inequality. It only implies that capitalism has nothing to offer as a prospect of a decent life for the vast majority of humanity...” In this webinar from our popular RP Live series, Ndongo Samba Sylla tells us of the challenges facing Africa through the story of Thomas Sankara and breaks down what Sankara meant when he told the people to "live as African.” N...
Monetary Operations: Coordinated vs. Consolidated with Eric Tymoigne
September 16, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 94.5 MB**If you’d like to discuss this episode with friends and comrades, join our Macro ‘n Chill listening party on Tuesday evening at 8 ET/5 PT. For the Zoom registration link, go to realprogressives.org/rp-events-calendar/ Understanding how monetary sovereign governments create and spend money means looking at the Treasury department and the central bank or, in the US, the Federal Reserve. Economist Eric Tymoigne explains two approaches to understanding the relationship: the consolidated and t...
The MMT Lens with Bill Mitchell
September 09, 2023 12:00 - 48 minutes - 72.5 MB**On Tuesday evenings, Real Progressives hosts Macro ‘n Chill, an informal listening party for members of the community to discuss an episode of this podcast. For the Zoom registration link go to realprogressives.org/rp-events-calendar/ When someone associates Modern Monetary Theory with left or right wing politics, they’re signaling they know nothing of MMT and are simply associating it with some of its proponents. MMTers are political, MMT is not. Regarding degrowth, this week’s guest, Bi...
Can Unions Reclaim the Strike? with Joe Burns
September 02, 2023 12:00 - 54 minutes - 77.1 MB“I think within every labor struggle is a kernel of a broader transformation of society. So, it's interesting because Harry Bridges, who was the longtime leader of the longshore workers on the West Coast from the 1930s to the 1960s, when he talked about strike, he said every strike is a mini-revolution.” On the eve of the strike authorization vote by American Airlines flight attendants, Joe Burns spoke with Steve about the labor movement, unions, and class struggle. Joe, a labor lawyer and ...
Triggered! with Stephanie Preston
August 26, 2023 12:00 - 56 minutes - 81.7 MBActivists and organizers know that effective communication depends on connecting with people’s real needs. But we’re often baffled when people don’t act in their own interests or don’t identify others’ interests as intersecting with their own. To grapple with some of these questions, Steve turns to Stephanie Preston, Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan and author of The Altruistic Urge: Why We’re Driven to Help Others. They delve into in-group versus out-group dynamics and...
RP Book Club Presents Pavlina Tcherneva's The Case For a Job Guarantee
August 19, 2023 12:00 - 6 hours - 539 MBRP Book Club spent four weeks on The Case for a Job Guarantee, by Pavlina R. Tcherneva. Each week featured a different guest expert who led the discussion and answered questions. Listeners to this podcast will recognize their names, including Pavlina herself, Fadhel Kaboub, Ben Wilson, and Rohan Grey. We were also honored to have Bill Black and June Carbone join in. For this episode, Macro N Cheese is releasing the audio recording of all four sessions. Since it is unusually long, the time c...
What's Bugging Mathew Forstater?
August 12, 2023 12:00 - 58 minutes - 85.3 MB“...Because we recognize that taxes are not a funding operation, there's this myth that people who support MMT don't want to use fiscal policy to promote equity. Of course, taxes are redistribution … Things have gotten way out of hand, so taxation is also intended to promote equity, to affect distribution and allocation. Resource allocation.” Mat Forstater was on this podcast four years ago (episode 21!) recounting the history of MMT. He described his early days at Levy Institute and UMKC, ...
The Double Objective of Democratic Ecosocialism with Jason Hickel
August 05, 2023 12:00 - 55 minutes - 78.9 MBThe title of this week’s episode is taken from an article to be published in September’s Monthly Review. The author, Jason Hickel, talks to Steve about the topic in his third visit to the podcast. Before we look at the double objective of ecosocialism we must analyze the double crisis we’re facing – ecological and social. Both are caused by the same underlying issue: the capitalist mode of production. Capitalism creates an almost perfect circuit that begins and ends with commodification an...
Imperialism and the Global South’s Debt with Ndongo Samba Sylla
July 29, 2023 12:00 - 49 minutes - 73.8 MBIt will come as no surprise to our listeners that countries of the Global South are mired in a foreign debt crisis and that default is directly tied to the lack of monetary sovereignty. Our friend Ndongo Samba Sylla, a Senegalese development economist, talks to Steve about the situation, how it came to be, and how it can be overcome. Countries of the Global South usually are tied to debt in a foreign currency for a number of reasons, including balance of payment constraints and the capture...
RP Book Club presents: Randy Wray's Making Money Work for Us
July 22, 2023 12:00 - 4 hours - 130 MB**Don’t forget to check out our transcripts! There’s one for every episode of this podcast, as well as a section of “extras” with links to relevant resources. Go to realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese-podcast/ This week we’re bringing you all three sessions of the Real Progressives Book Club on L. Randall Wray’s Making Money Work for Us. RP Book Club is run by our volunteers with guest experts leading the discussion and taking questions from attendees. This is much longer than our us...
Managed Democracy and Inverted Totalitarianism in the USA with 1Dime
July 15, 2023 12:00 - 59 minutes - 85.6 MB“People talk about campaign finance being the problem as to why ‘progressive’ politicians can't get elected. But that's more of an effect of this rather than the cause, because let's say, Citizens United, the court ruling which now allows corporations to pretty much give unlimited donations to candidates. That's just the most recent evolution of a system which precludes all possibility for radical change.” Our guest this week is 1Dime, a content creator on YouTube and the podcast, 1Dime ...
Is the US a Failed State? with Michael Hudson
July 08, 2023 12:00 - 51 minutes - 76.2 MBIs the US a failed state? Well, with a paralyzed economy, debt deflation, and a ruling elite waging class warfare on labor, what else should we call it? Economist Michael Hudson often writes and talks about the US role as a global force bending the rest of the world to its will. Or trying to. This week he and Steve bring the focus home, looking at the state of affairs in the US; breaking down the causes and devastating effects of the massive transfer of income and wealth from the working cl...
RP Live with David Correia and Tyler Wall
July 01, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 103 MBIn this episode, David Correia and Tyler Wall, co-authors of Police: A Field Guide, lead a webinar about policing in the US. The common narrative about the police is intentionally misleading. Without a class analysis and an understanding of history, it will remain a problem with no solution. Policing isn’t a side-show to capitalist political economy. It’s part of the main stage. Far from engaging in enforcing the law and fighting crime, the police are a coercive force, with origins as slave...
Setting the Bar Low with Yeva Nersisyan
June 24, 2023 12:00 - 53 minutes - 64.6 MBIf you’ve recently chatted with a well-informed liberal – the kind who reads the NY Times or watches PBS NewsHour – you’ve heard encouraging things about the economy. You’ve heard that Biden’s doing a good job. Unemployment has gone down, wages have gone up. Why can’t you be happy about it all? To celebrate all this good news, we brought back our friend, Yeva Nersisyan, associate professor of economics at Franklin and Marshall College, research scholar at the Levy Institute, and frequent co...
Capital Deceit with Paul Gambles
June 17, 2023 12:00 - 54 minutes - 65.4 MBIt’s always interesting to get the insights of someone whose job places them near the beating heart of the imperial behemoth. Especially when they’ve begun to pull back the curtain and take a hard look at reality. Paul Gambles lives in Thailand where he specializes in emerging markets with MBMG Group. Paul and Steve talk about the clarity that MMT provides. The public is kept intentionally misinformed by a mainstream narrative purposely obscuring the power relations of the capital order. P...
Full Employment with Pavlina Tcherneva
June 10, 2023 12:00 - 58 minutes - 70.9 MBWhen economist Pavlina Tcherneva was last on this podcast, we were a few months into the pandemic. She and Steve talked about nationalizing payroll and the heightened need for a federal job guarantee during a time of crisis. In this episode, the neoliberal approach to unemployment comes under scrutiny. Pavlina explains the inadequacy of official unemployment data. She looks at the problem from several angles, including geography, demographics, and of course, economics. Pavlina and Steve di...
Abolition with David Correia
June 03, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 76.5 MB“We've all got that cop in our head that wants us to see a world full of threats and emergencies.” Steve’s guest, David Correia, is co-author (with Tyler Wall) of Police: A Field Guide. Listeners to the podcast probably understand the role of police is to protect capital, not ensure the safety of the citizens. “...from the railroad strikes of 1877 to the anthracite strike of 1902, it was just this unruly world of labor asserting itself, demanding higher wages, refusing to go back to work, ...
Putting BRICS into Perspective with Yan Liang
May 27, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 101 MBDr. Yan Liang joins Steve to talk about China’s role in the global economy and the concept of “de-dollarization.” It’s refreshing to hear a discussion of these issues without hyperbole, but you know that already; that’s why you come to Macro N Cheese. Countries of the global south have suffered chronic debt and financial crises due to the neoliberal regime of the US and its allies. After the 2008 financial crisis, China has been diversifying its foreign exchange reserves and establishing cu...
China and the Labor of Reinvention with Lin Zhang
May 20, 2023 12:00 - 56 minutes - 135 MBDr. Lin Zhang talks with Steve about her book "The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy." Her book includes stories of individuals who transformed themselves and their lives to take advantage of this new global economy. She tells of Min, a former prisoner... “I think Min's story in a way captures the sort of imperative of entrepreneurialism in which we are all still living. The contemporary capitalist economy. The need to kind of keep reinventing onesel...
European Union and the Post Pandemic Economy with Dirk Ehnts
May 13, 2023 12:00 - 55 minutes - 81.2 MB**Check out the section of “Extras,” where you will find resources for further information about topics touched on in this episode. Transcripts are available for this and every episode. https://realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese-podcast/ It’s been almost two years since we’ve had German economist Dirk Ehnts on the podcast. This episode can be seen as part of Steve’s ongoing look at “dedollarization” and what it means to be the world’s reserve currency. They turn the MMT lens toward the Eur...
Messaging For Mainstream with Bijou Smith
May 06, 2023 12:00 - 57 minutes - 84 MBNew Zealander Bijou Smith is a longtime friend of Steve and the podcast. His story, in brief: “I was a physicist. I love physics, theoretical physics, but when I learned a bit about economics—I was always interested in economics from a sort of dynamical systems analysis perspective. It's kind of interesting mathematics. Even the neoclassical stuff is interesting for a little while until you realize it's a joke. But then when I heard about MMT, a lot of the pieces clicked into placed and it's...
RP Live with Clara Mattei
April 29, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 119 MBIf you’re one of the lucky ones who attended our webinar, RP Live with Clara E. Mattei, then you’ve already heard this episode. Or you may have watched the video of that event. This podcast episode is the audio version, but we’re asking you to play it anyway. It never hurts to hear information a few times, and by playing it, you’re also helping us grow Macro N Cheese. Because algorithms. On Tuesday, May 2nd, Professor Mattei will be joining us for the first of two sessions of RP Book Club o...