2/ Only barely through the introduction and the start of chapter 1, but it got interesting so I wanted to start the thread. (I’ll get back to Harvey when the polls are done)
So, the premise here seems to be that you (a country) have your own national currency. The thing she is going to get to, as far as I can understand these things right now, is that “deficits are a myth”.
And I think this is related to the Piketty (I can’t believe this is useful now) stories about how states erased their debts through inflation: Germany and France were the examples. And Germany are today apparently very skeptical of this approach.