Christian talks to Edward Cornell Professor of Law, public finance consultant, and author of “Financing The Green New Deal” Robert Hockett about the recent collapses in the banking system and how to make banks work for people, rather than the other way around.   Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/MMTpodcast     Order “The Citizens' Ledger: Digitizing Our Money, Democratizing Our Finance” by Robert Hockett: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Citizens-Ledger-Digitizing-Democratizing-Finance/dp/3030995658/     Sign up to Robert Hockett’s Substack: https://roberthockett.substack.com/   Order the Gower Initiative’s “Modern Monetary Theory - Key Insights, Leading Thinkers”: https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/modern-monetary-theory-9781802208085.html   Free tickets for the launch of “Modern Monetary Theory - Key Insights, Leading Thinkers”, in London on 20th April: https://gimms.org.uk/event/book-launch/     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     All our episodes in chronological order: https://www.patreon.com/posts/43111643   All our episodes with Robert Hockett: https://www.patreon.com/posts/63228139   Relevant to this episode: “How to Spark a Nationwide Main Street Industrial Renewal with Universal Deposit Insurance” By Robert Hockett: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rhockett/2023/03/18/how-to-spark-a-nationwide-main-street-industrial-renewal-with-universal-deposit-insurance/?sh=5b6bcc1c50c5 Robert’s Draft legislation, the Federal Deposit Insurance Completion Act and the Treasury Dollar Act, and explainers for each are on this link: https://twitter.com/rch371/status/1638229758419902468 In this episode, Robert talks about Wicksellian credit money creation. Knut Wicksell was one of the earliest financial practitioners to observe that bank loans create bank deposits, rather than the other way around. This is known as the endogenous money view. Robert talks more about Wicksell in these episodes: Episode 73: Spreading The Fed & Why Wicksell Matters (part 1): https://www.patreon.com/posts/43321755 Episode 74: Spreading The Fed & Why Wicksell Matters (part 2): https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-74-fed-2-43487286 For more on the endogenous money view (again, the non-fringe, now very mainstream view that bank loans create deposits, not the other way around), listen to: Episode 43 - Sam Levey: Understanding Endogenous Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/35073683 Episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318 Robert Hockett’s Forbes blog: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rhockett/?sh=51cf341ee54a     Our Job Guarantee episodes: Episode 4 - Fadhel Kaboub: What is the Job Guarantee?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41742701 Episode 47 - Pavlina Tcherneva: Building Resilience - The Case For A Job Guarantee: https://www.patreon.com/posts/36034543 Episode 148 - Pavlina Tcherneva: Why The Job Guarantee Is Core To Modern Monetary Theory: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-148-why-73211346 Quick read: Pavlina Tcherneva’s Job Guarantee FAQ page: https://pavlina-tcherneva.net/job-guarantee-faq/     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 Quick explanation of government debt and deficit: “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 Warren Mosler’s “7 Deadly Innocent Frauds Of Economic Policy” here: http://moslereconomics.com/wp-content/powerpoints/7DIF.pdf