The MMT Podcast: Recent Episodes

Mike Norman

Discussions of Modern Monetary Theory.

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Mike Norman podcasts are back!

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Fed policy shift
Erdogan and the Turkish lira
Bitcoin mining
Russian-NATO conflict
No free market

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I'm back.
50m bbl oil release
Fed taper and income
The profit motive
Why rates will come down.

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My 14er
Taper is money printing
Signs inflation coming down
Bond bears
Banks boom
Remember when Bezos was rich?

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Debt ceiling
More Fed cheaters
Facebook outage
Forbes rich list
Oil top?
Stock market reality.

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The most dangerous man 
FOMC member front running
Greece pays less?
Let's default!
Mint the coin!

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Fed freakout
Fiscal fizzle
All the damn spending
Debt ceiling seizures
Credit boom a comin'
Dollar zombies

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UE benefit cuts
$600 bln per month
Defunct economists
El Erian gets it wrong
GDP and shrimp scampi
Make your own bread
Fiat systems don't blow up

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Fiscal cliff coming?
Fed official on market risk
Zombie reactions
UE benefit cuts took a bite
Skyrocketing home prices

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Fires everywhere, blame the Fed!
High prices homes, cars.
Precious metals crash
Spend first collect later
Construction needs to rise
Open borders
Larry Summers 
Fading the zombies

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Idaho. 
Zombie behavior. 
MMT gives you an edge. 
The damn Fed.
Bragging about losses in the Hamptons..

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Political reality of gov't spending
Bond yields, rates to zero?
US insolvency
Stoic mentality
Big boy investing

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Inflation scare
Interest rate spike?
Gold and Basel III
US debt default? Let's go!

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Fiscal slowdown
They're un-printing money
Thatcher's other people's money
MMT is a tool

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Fedwatch insanity
Debt ceiling politics
the dollar is a tax credit
Deficit dips
Fiscal fraud

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Paul Tudor Jones
A fool and his money
America's priorities
Leverage ratio 
Our "creditors"

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Basel 3 and gold
Fed again
Did Bitcoin just jump the shark?

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Fiscal spigot shut off in June?
Oil rally ending?
Russia out of SWIFT?
Is Tesla's appreciation over?
Fed's repo madness
Debt fallacy

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My Grand Canyon hike. 
Inflation over? 
Now it's fight the Fed. 
Fiscal risk ahead?

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Paid not to work.
Stanley Drunken Miller. Find the inflows.
Who pays all the taxes?
Beware the debt ceiling.

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Inflation hysteria 
Tunnel vision focus on Fed
Warren Buffett on low rates.
The Monopoly game explains everything
Yellen thinks she's still at the Fed

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US Russia relations deteriorating.
Trading pit stories
Gas shortage this summer?
Zero tax states won't be for long.
Florida Keys for me.

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Claw back the money
Floor trading stories
Economists and the big lie
Fired from Standard & Poor's
My life flashed before my eyes

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Grand Canyon hike. 
Price is meaningless.
Most ridiculous critique of MMT ever
Economic boom coming? If we avoid WW3!

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It's our money.
Self mastery
Reframing your experience.
More regressive policies.

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$3T stimulus
It's a balance sheet
Powell gets some credit
Inflation vs growth
Achieving our potential
Trading randomness
Cold therapy

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Ray Dalio whines why own bonds?
Finance Capitalism is not capitalism
It's not a meriticracy
Bill O'Reilly.
Biden's tax increases
HERE'S what causes inflation

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Reserve tsunami. 
We need that "debt." 
Fools running things. 
Buy value. 
Biden return to fiscal conservatism?

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Hedge funds front running their way to unimpressive profits.
MMT is in policy and has been for a long time.
Bonds are the new GameStop.

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Burying Michael Burry
Opinion economics
My Alan Greenspan story
Selling doom and gloom
Money is an accounting system

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Dwayne the rock Johnson for president
Reaganomics
bitcoin $50k
Reserves and banks
Negative rates coming for U.K. and the British pound.

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Super Tom Brady
Biden stimulus coming
Bitcoin mania
Gold, Silver, undervalued?
The weaponization of the dollar.
Keystone Pipeline 51:50

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Elon grills Vlad on Robinhood actions.
Is the stock market about to tumble? 
Raise the min wage now!

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Gamestop. The little guy gets even with Wall St. 
Euthanize the short sellers. 
It might go up. It might go down. It might stay the same.

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Biden stimulus. 
Yellen confirmation hearings. 
She said what? 
End of dollar as reserve currency. 
Chasing the fairy.

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Capitol insurrection. 
Blackrock sucks. 
Give everyone a trillion. 
Leave it to the market.

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Georgia election. 
Fiscal flows. 
Wall St strategies? 
Never stop fighting.

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It's not pocket change you know.
I didn't get a bill.
Rand Paul: "We're out of money."
Tesla bubble?

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Biden is official
We're doing MMT!
Go against emotion
Grand bargain?
Gov't capture

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The vaccine is out. 
Stock market sentiment at historic levels. 
Another clueless hedge fund guy. 
More MMT attacks.
Trading long term for big profits.

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Blackrock Larry Fink
Biden's economic team
Applied MMT
Self awareness and change
The illusion of systems
dialing for dollars
Mnuchin and the CARES ACT funds

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Janet Yellen is the incoming  Treasury Secretary in the Biden Administration. She's a staunch debt phobe. Listen to her comments.

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Dow 30k? 
Fiscal flows. 
Trump attack on Iran. 
Biden austerity? 
MMT dishonesty.

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Election fraud? 
Wall Street gets it wrong again. 
Keynesian doesn't work? 
Covid vaccine. 
Mental game.
Small time pikers.

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My election thoughts. Recorded Tuesday, Nov 3.
Jim Rogers..."worst recession."
You think there's inequality now? Just wait.
Maya MacGuineas. Nut job debt phobe crusader.
Ottmar Issing's straw man attack on MMT.

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A Harvard degree is a rubber stamp to be a clueless idiot.
Another neoliberal Biden adviser.
Biden is a fiscal hawk.
We're not making enough housing.
Don't put words in my mouth.

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There is no debt.
Shark Tank.
TSA traveler activity.
Larry, Rob and Rahm.
Voting has begun and it's been heavy.

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Debunking the national debt nonsense.
Zerohedge attacks MMT and fails miserably.
Wall Street short-termism.
Sun Tzu and mental game.

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Spoiler alert: Cuban doesn't really get it.

Plus...dumb media pundits and Trump's cancellation of the stimulus.

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*Recorded before the debate.
Is the Fed a private corporation? I settle this question once and for all.
Trump's tax returns.

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More idiocy from Minneapolis Fed president Neel Kashkari. Trump's advisers tell him, "Don't touch the dollar. It MUST trade freely." Thoughts on Friedrich Nietzsche applied to trading. Are you a master or a slave?

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Finally a market correction.
What the hell is an "artificial economy?"
Those miserable scum.
Is NYC ever coming back?

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Economy and stock market have record fiscal support so no correction until everybody is "all in," and we're not there yet. Plus, a disturbing crime in NYC, but everyone stands around watching rather than offer help to the victim. It's a jungle.

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The mental game aspects of poker and trading are the same. I explore some of these in this podcast.

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Easy to spot a clueless ideologue. Wait for their contradictions. There will be plenty.

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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders miss a big oppotuntiy to change the narrative on payroll taxes and Social Security.

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Gold surges above $2000 as institutions starting warming to it. Is Minneapolis Fed president, Neel Kashkari really that dumb? And nobody embodies these intolerable hedge fund guys more than Jeffrey Guuuunnnnddddllaaaacccchhhh.

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Those $600 weekly unemployment payments end this week. I also cover the dollar and gold.

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MMT is going viral and many are accepting its truths, but a small band of dopey critics, who have never read any of the MMT literature, just continue to post up ridiculous and bogus straw man arguments. Listen how I rip them down.

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My latest and best rant yet. Fed, markets, Tesla, US dollar...I go over a lot of stuff that gets me fired up.

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The financial sector is too big and it adds nothing to the economy except needless risk and volatility. And it's predatory in nature. That's why it should be shrunk.

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Ex NY Fed chief, Bill Dudley recently wrote an article for Bloomberg.com in which he explained QE and Fed asset purchases. Only problem is, he has the understanding all wrong.

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More Fed hysteria from the wacko's and policy makers. "They're printin' munnie!" And some good mental game concepts.

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Stocks rally back. The return of daytraders. And, mental game. Is your thinking and behavior sabotaging your results? Train yourself to push through.

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All over Wall Street those "Very Serious People" are throwing their hands in the air over the market's recent rally. "It's the Fed. It's the Fed" they cry. But they completely ignore fiscal and even don't understand the Fed.

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I am back to podcasting, folks! This is my first episode. Some MMT, trading and history. Check it out.