Bill Mitchell-en MMTed Q&A – Episode 3
(http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=45234)
I am going to use the Wednesday blog post for the time being as the place I publish our weekly MMTed Q&A series. There will also be some music for those who like to find some different music. I have just published – MMTed Q&A Episode 3 – on the MMTed YouTube channel (see overleaf). We covered some interesting questions and I hope you find it interesting. This episode is considerably shorter than the first two as we experiment with formats and improve the editing process.
MMTed Q&A – Episode 3
This is Episode 3 in the MMTed Q&A series.
It features Dr Dirk Ehnts from Samuel Pufendorf Society for Political Economy, which is based in Berlin.
He last book (2017) was – Modern Monetary Theory and European Macroeconomics – published by Routledge.
The two questions we discuss in this episode are:
1. “Could we have more details on MMT analysis of the process of destruction of/exit from fiat monetary unions like the Eurozone? (this was posed by Andrea)
2. “What would be the best option for the Eurozone to finance the appropriate and necessary extra spending by Member States in the current crisis? (this was posed by Julius).
The video goes for 22:05 minutes. We are working towards making the segment shorter.
This is the – YouTube link – for the video.
Some observations:
1. This series is an experiment – searching for a format that satisfies the myriad of requests I get from blog readers to deliver a regular Q&A via video.
I am not yet convinced that this is the best way to do it. And I will be varying the format next week somewhat (shorter more modular approach) to see whether that works better.
2. I am also not happy with the use of Zoom in this context.
The quality of the final audio and video is heavily dependent on too many influences that are well beyond my control.
At our end, we have high speed Internet but the Zoom interaction also depends on the quality of connection, types of computers etc used by my guests, and, the state of the Internet in between.
Combined, we are finding it difficult to get the quality audio and video that we desire.
I am not sure of what the solution is, if we want to continue having interesting guests appear, especially now that we are unable to travel and meet face-to-face.
So we are exploring options in this regard – perhaps we could get guests provide the video answers themselves without using Zoom.
That cuts down interaction but might work better.
3. We are also constrained in staffing capacity which means we do not have a dedicated audio-visual capacity yet.
So, overall, we are experimenting and may drop the whole project.
