Jeff Epstein

Activist #MMT - podcast

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Welcome to Activist #MMT. A podcast about real-world economics including Modern Money Theory, and how life changes when you discover it.

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Jeff Epstein

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Education

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activistmmt.org

Latest episode

Nov 24, 2025

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Episodes

Modern Money Doughnuts: Torrens Student Susan Borden (season 3, episode 3, audio only) 22.04.2023

Welcome to to the audio of season 3, episode 3 of Modern Money Doughnuts (MMD), hosted by Steven Hail and Gabrielle Bond. In series 3 of Modern Money Doughnuts, we meet some of the students from the Modern Money Lab and Torrens University Australia Masters Degree in the Economics of Sustainability. Today we talk to Susan Borden, one of our amazing students, about what she's learning in the course,...

Ep142 [3/3]: Scott Fullwiler: Modern Central Bank Operations: The General Principles [principles 7-10 of 10] 25.03.2023

Welcome to episode 142 of Activist #MMT. Today's the final part of my three-part conversation with Scott Fullwiler, on his 2008 paper, Modern Central Bank Operations: The General Principles . Today we discuss principles seven to ten. My full and detailed question and summary list can be found in the show notes to part one . Also, be sure to check out the list of audio chapters at the bottom of tod...

Modern Money Doughnuts: Torrens Student Nathan McMillan (season 3, episode 2, audio only) 06.03.2023

Welcome to the audio of season 2, episode 2 of Modern Money Doughnuts (MMD), hosted by Steven Hail and Gabrielle Bond. In series 3 of Modern Money Doughnuts, we meet some of the students from the Modern Money Lab and Torrens University Australia Masters Degree in the Economics of Sustainability. Today we talk to Nathan McMillan, one of our amazing students, about what he's learning in the course,...

Ep141 [2/3]: Scott Fullwiler: Modern Central Bank Operations: The General Principles [principles 3-6 of 10] 25.02.2023

Welcome to episode 141 of Activist #MMT. Today's part two of my three-part conversation with Scott Fullwiler, on his 2008 paper, Modern Central Bank Operations: The General Principles . Last time in part one, we discussed some generic but related topics, and then principles one and two. Today in part two, we discuss principles three to six. Next time in part three, we discuss seven through ten. My...

Modern Money Doughnuts: Torrens Student Jeff Epstein (season 3, episode 1, audio only) 08.02.2023

Welcome to season 3, episode 1 of Modern Money Doughnuts (MMD), hosted by Steven Hail and Gabrielle Bond. In series 3 of Modern Money Doughnuts, we meet some of the students from the Modern Money Lab and Torrens University Australia Masters Degree in the Economics of Sustainability. Today we talk to Activist #MMT Jeff Epstein, one of our amazing students, about what he's learning in the course, wh...

Ep140 [1/3]: Scott Fullwiler: Modern Central Bank Operations: The General Principles [principles 1-2 of 10] 29.01.2023

Welcome to episode 140 of Activist #MMT. Today I talk with Scott Fullwiler on his 2008 paper, Modern Central Bank Operations: The General Principles . Today's part one of a three-part conversation. Today in part one we discuss some generic but related topics, and then principles one and two. Next time in part two we cover principles three to six, and then in part three, principles seven to ten. My...

Full audio: John Harvey's Contending Perspectives: Chapter 2: Economics as a scientific discipline [EDITED] 08.01.2023

Here's the original video from where this audio came. Here's a list of links to John reading every chapter (released so far) in his 2021 book Contending Perspectives. Note the original video is unedited, but the audio has been edited to eliminate obvious mistakes, coughs, interruptions, and etc. Audio chapters Use the below timestamps to navigate to each major section and occurrence in this sectio...

Ep137: Steve Kelsey: Trans-jurisdictional caring 05.01.2023

Welcome to episode 137 of activist #MMT. Today I talk with Steve Kelsey, about what money and money issuance, and our entire money system, should and could be, if we could start over and design it from scratch. You'll find two of his papers linked below (in the Resources section). Before that, we discuss Steve's Twitter thread , which is one of the most viral MMT tweet threads of all time more tha...

The Reality of Inflation with Fadhel Kaboub 29.12.2022

Dennison University economics professor Fadhel Kaboub discusses the reality of inflation. Dr. Kaboub has recently been appointed as Under-Secretary-General for Financing for Development of the OEC. See: https://oec-oce.org/en/secretary-general-appoints-fadhel-kaboub-under-secretary-general-for-financing-for-development/ Here's the video of this snippet, with thanks to KRTD Media: https://youtu.be/...

Full audio: John Harvey's Contending Perspectives: Chapter 1: Introduction [EDITED] 11.12.2022

Here's the original video from where this audio came. Here's a list of links to John reading every chapter (released so far) in his 2021 book Contending Perspectives. I have edited both the video and audio to eliminate obvious mistakes, coughs, interruptions, and etc. Audio chapters Use the below timestamps to navigate to each major section and occurrence in this section: 0:00 - The Cowboy Economi...

Ep136 [2/2]: Gabie Bond: Climate change, Torrens, and the job guarantee 28.11.2022

Welcome to episode 136 of Activist #MMT. Today's part two of my two-part conversation with Gabie Bond. Last month, in part one , we talked not about economics, but all about music. Gabie's a classically trained violist and I'm a classically trained singer. Today in part two, we talk about MMT, Torrens University, climate change, and the job guarantee. The Sustainable Prosperity Action Group has wr...

Ep135 [1/2]: Gabie Bond: Talking all about music [NOT MMT] 30.10.2022

Welcome to episode 135 of Activist #MMT. Today I talk with Gabie Bond. In part two, we talk about MMT, Torrens University, climate change, and the job guarantee. In hour one, however, we talk all about music. (To be clear, this first hour has little to do with economics.) As you heard before the opening music, Gabie is a classically trained violist. (Her accompanist and partner is a classically tr...

Full audio: Cowboy Economist #23: Is we is or is we ain't in a recession? (John Harvey) 12.10.2022

Here's the original video from where this audio came. Here's a list of links to the full audio for every Cowboy Economist video .

Ep134 [2/2]: Charles Hayden: Inflation and Warren's monopoly price setter 25.09.2022

Welcome to episode 134 of Activist #MMT. Today's part two of my two-part conversation with Charles Hayden. In part one , Charles described how he created at least three important milestones in MMT history, and how Warren Mosler played a integral role his journey to understanding and accepting MMT. Today in part two, we discuss some of the many varied realistic views of inflation, and how each of t...

Modern Money Doughnuts, seas2-ep12: Fadhel Kaboub: climate justice and monetary sovereignty (audio podcast) 05.09.2022

Welcome to season 2, episode 12 of Modern Money Doughnuts (MMD), hosted by Steven Hail and Gabrielle Bond. MMD is an international show about modern monetary theory and ecological economics. This week, Steven and Gabie talk to Fadhel Kaboub, the President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and consultant to Modern Money Lab , is one of the world's leading MMT economists and an expe...

Ep133 [1/2]: Charles Hayden: His role in early MMT milestones (and Warren Mosler) 28.08.2022

Welcome to episode 133 of Activist #MMT. Today I talk with Charles Hayden about his role in creating at least three important milestones in MMT history, and how Warren Mosler played a integral role his journey to understanding and accepting MMT. The first milestone, as hinted at in the cool quote (what you heard at the very beginning), is the 2013 debate between Warren and Austrian economist Rober...

Ep132[3/3,6/6] John Harvey on exchange rates and neoclassicism [guest host: Johnathan Wilson] 21.08.2022

Welcome to episode 132 of Activist #MMT. Today's the final part of a six-part series with Texas Christian University (TCU) economics professor and Cowboy Economist John Harvey. Parts four through six are also the first main interview of Activist #MMT hosted by someone other than me. Today's guest host is my own former guest, MMT researcher, Texas lawyer, and pmpecon.com author, Jonathan Wilson. Jo...

Ep131[2/3,5/6] John Harvey on exchange rates and neoclassicism [guest host: Johnathan Wilson] 15.08.2022

Welcome to episode 131 of Activist #MMT. Today's part five of a six-part series with Texas Christian University (TCU) economics professor and Cowboy Economist John Harvey. Parts four through six are also the first main interview of Activist #MMT hosted by someone other than me. Today's guest host is my own former guest, MMT researcher, Texas lawyer, and pmpecon.com author, Jonathan Wilson. Jonatha...

Modern Money Doughnuts, seas2-ep11: Matthew Rimmer (audio podcast) 10.08.2022

Welcome to season 2, episode 11 of Modern Money Doughnuts (MMD), hosted by Steven Hail and Gabrielle Bond. MMD is an international show about modern monetary theory and ecological economics. This week, Steven and Gabie talk to Professor Matthew Rimmer, an expert in intellectual property and innovation law at the Queensland University of Technology. Matthew has recently written about the Right to R...

Ep130[1/3,4/6] John Harvey on exchange rates and neoclassicism [guest host: Johnathan Wilson] 07.08.2022

Welcome to episode 130 of Activist #MMT. Today's part four of a six-part series with Texas Christian University (TCU) economics professor and Cowboy Economist John Harvey. Parts four through six are also the first main interview of Activist #MMT hosted by someone other than me. Today's guest host is my own former guest, MMT researcher, Texas lawyer, and pmpecon.com author, Jonathan Wilson. (Jonath...

Modern Money Doughnuts, seas2-ep10: Con Michalakis (audio podcast) 03.08.2022

Welcome to season 2, episode 10 of Modern Money Doughnuts (MMD), hosted by Steven Hail and Gabrielle Bond. MMD is an international show about modern monetary theory and ecological economics. This week, Steven and Gabie talk to Con Michalakis. Con is the Chief Investment Officer for Statewide Superannuation, South Australia's biggest retirement pension fund. He is also the Chair of Modern Money Lab...

Ep129[2/2]: Dirk Ehnts: Raising interest rates is like blowing up the garden to weed it 31.07.2022

Welcome to episode 129 of Activist #MMT. Today's part two of my two-part conversation with Dirk Ehnts. Last week in part one , Dirk described his journey from a PhD in mainstream economics, to discovering and accepting MMT. Today, I ask questions circling around his new co-authored piece for the Gower Initiative, called Raising interest rates is like blowing up the garden to weed it . It starts wi...

Ep128[1/2] Dirk Ehnts: From mainstream to MMT 25.07.2022

Ep128[1/2] Dirk Ehnts: From mainstream to MMT https://youtu.be/m0uyelaD4uA https://make.headliner.app/project/5cca5c19-38ae-4aa6-8da8-b241d449689b Welcome to episode 128 of Activist #MMT. Today I talk with Dirk Ehnts, about his personal journey to MMT, which happened only after obtaining a PhD in mainstream economics. One of Dirk's first hints that something was wrong, was discovering that Paul Kr...

Ep127 [3/3,3/6]: John Harvey: MMT, the UK, and pound sterling 17.07.2022

Welcome to episode 127 of Activist #MMT. Today's part three in a six-part series with Texas Christian University (TCU) economics professor and Cowboy Economist , John Harvey. The first three parts are hosted by me, the final three by MMT researcher, Texas lawyer, and my previous guest, Johnathan Wilson. Jonathan and John talk about how MMT can apply to nations outside the US, using Russia as an ex...

Ep126[2/3,2/6]: John Harvey: MMT, the UK, and pound sterling 11.07.2022

Welcome to episode 126 of Activist #MMT. Today's part two in a six-part series with Texas Christian University (TCU) economics professor and Cowboy Economist , John Harvey. The first three parts are hosted by me, the final three by MMT researcher, Texas lawyer, and my previous guest, Johnathan Wilson. Jonathan and John talk about how MMT can apply to nations outside the US, using Russia as an exam...

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