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Ep 345 - Argentina: IMF, MMT, Class Warfare with Daniel Conceição

Macro N Cheese

Published
September 13, 2025
Duration
1h 7m
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Last updated
Aug 23, 2026

Discusses Our friend Daniel Conceição is back for his sixth(!) time on Macro N Cheese. He and Steve share thei…

Summary

Our friend Daniel Conceição is back for his sixth(!) time on Macro N Cheese. He and Steve share their critique of "neutral" or academic MMT that avoids class analysis. Understanding a government's monetary capacity is meaningless without using that knowledge as a weapon for class struggle against an oppressive economic system. Daniel shares his experience…

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Our friend Daniel Conceição is back for his sixth(!) time on Macro N Cheese. He and Steve share their critique of "neutral" or academic MMT that avoids class analysis. Understanding a government's monetary capacity is meaningless without using that knowledge as a weapon for class struggle against an oppressive economic system. Daniel shares his experiences in Buenos Aires, describing a city with grand public infrastructure (a legacy of Peronism) now filled with poverty due to austerity. He disma