Part 5: Patricia and Christian continue their conversation about Stephanie Kelton’s best-seller The Deficit Myth.   In this episode: what does it mean for a nation to “win” or “lose” at trade?   As the global 99% are pitted against each other in an increasingly gigified international job market, who’s “we” and what is “winning”?   In an effort to dodge their responsibility for domestic unemployment, politicians have become very adept at mesmerising electorates with trade three-card Monte - focusing our attention on jobs and potential income flowing overseas, when a focus on real goods and services flowing *in* from the rest of the world reveals that trade deficits actually *improve* living standards for importing nations in real terms.   Nevertheless, in pursuit of political “wins”, leaders squander actual wins in pursuit of arbitrary economic indicators with the only economic management tool they think they have: unemployment.   Understanding modern money shows how we can truly succeed without sacrificing people or the planet.   =============   Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/MMTpodcast       For an intro to MMT: Our first three episodes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41742417 Episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318   Our “Unpacking The Deficit Myth” series: https://www.patreon.com/posts/47191289   All our episodes in chronological order: https://www.patreon.com/posts/43111643   Relevant to this episode: Shop to Win! Warren Mosler on Trump Tariffs: https://moslereconomics.com/2018/03/02/light-vehicle-sales-trump-tariffs/ Pavlina Tcherneva lays out why the Job Guarantee is core to Modern Monetary Theory in Episode 148: https://www.patreon.com/posts/73211346?pr=true Fadhel Kaboub defines monetary sovereignty in Episode 12 - Monetary Sovereignty, Colonialism and Independence: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41790149 Dirk Ehnts lays out a plan for a Eurozone-wide Job Guarantee in Episode 155: https://www.patreon.com/posts/38252014 Paper on the above proposal - “Completing The Euro: The Euro Treasury And The Job Guarantee” by Esteban Cruz Hidalgo, Dirk H. Ehnts & Pavlina R. Tcherneva: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334226761_Completing_the_Euro_The_Euro_Treasury_and_the_Job_Guarantee Warren Mosler and Damiano B. Silipo’s Job Guarantee proposal for the eurozone is within this paper - “Maximizing Price Stability in a Monetary Economy”: https://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/wp_864.pdf For more on the Job Guarantee as a “labour standard” (as opposed to a gold standard) to achieve superior price stability to our current system, listen to our episode 125 - Sam Levey: Monopoly, Monopsony, And What To Do About Them: https://www.patreon.com/posts/61954971       Quick MMT reads: Warren’s Mosler’s MMT white paper: http://moslereconomics.com/mmt-white-paper/ Steven Hail’s quick MMT explainer: https://theconversation.com/explainer-what-is-modern-monetary-theory-72095 On government debt: “Some Numbers Are Big. Let Me Help You Get Over It”: https://christreilly.com/2020/02/17/some-numbers-are-big-let-me-help-you-get-over-it/   For a short, non-technical, free ebook explaining MMT, download MMT founder Warren Mosler’s “7 Deadly Innocent Frauds Of Economic Policy” here: http://moslereconomics.com/wp-content/powerpoints/7DIF.pdf   Order “The Deficit Myth” by Stephanie Kelton: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B081JVRT57/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0   Order the Gower Initiative’s “Modern Monetary Theory - Key Insights, Leading Thinkers” (2023): https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/modern-monetary-theory-9781802208085.html   Order L Randall Wray’s latest book, “Making Money Work for Us” (2022): https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0BDCS46BG/ref=db