Not the Budget Public Debt: Accounting Reality vs Political Myth The Fiscal–Monetary Nexus The Real Populism: Austerity
Fiscal and Monetary: An Inseparable Pair
September 21, 2025Public debt: an “existential threat.” That is how it is described by the guardians of budgetary orthodoxy, whose alarmism owes more to populism than to a rigorous understanding of the mechanisms at play. Their discourse aims to instill fear for ideological purposes. It serves a hidden agenda. Unless, perhaps, they simply ignore the intimate ties…