{"id":6812,"date":"2013-01-15T11:07:54","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T16:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.multiplier-effect.org\/?p=6812"},"modified":"2013-01-16T21:07:47","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T02:07:47","slug":"money-and-the-public-purpose-real-vs-nominal-and-a-special-session-with-syriza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/money-and-the-public-purpose-real-vs-nominal-and-a-special-session-with-syriza\/","title":{"rendered":"Asking the Right Questions about Government Budgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Below is the video from the latest session of the Modern Money and Public Purpose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernmoneyandpublicpurpose.com\/\">seminar<\/a> at Columbia University, featuring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.levyinstitute.org\/scholars\/?auth=151\">Jan Kregel<\/a> and <em>Forbes<\/em>&#8216; John Harvey.\u00a0 The session touched on the sustainability of fiscal and trade deficits, why economists need to study accounting, the risks of paying down the government debt, the real meaning of &#8220;fiscal responsibility,&#8221; and the assumptions about the appropriate size of government that are sowing confusion in the budget debate.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X39M9MXRNyg?feature=player_detailpage&amp;start=1470\" height=\"252\" width=\"448\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is the video from the latest session of the Modern Money and Public Purpose seminar at Columbia University, featuring Jan Kregel and Forbes&#8216; John Harvey.\u00a0 The session touched on the sustainability of fiscal and trade deficits, why economists need to study accounting, the risks of paying down the government debt, the real meaning of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,116],"tags":[74,123,506,508,300,505,507],"class_list":["post-6812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiscal-policy","category-international-trade","tag-budget-deficit","tag-debt","tag-debt-sustainability","tag-fiscal-responsibility","tag-jan-kregel","tag-national-income-accounting","tag-trade-deficit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6812"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6828,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6812\/revisions\/6828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}