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Behind The Markets Podcast: Warren Mosler

Behind the Markets Podcast

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Is There a Default of Italy?

If the treasury issues securities, if we buy securities from the Fed, it makes absolutely no difference to us in the private sector. The only difference can be how they're accounting for it on their side of the ledge. And that was why Italy went to fall because the reason governments with their own current currency, sell securities is not to fund expenditures but to support interest rates. It's all monetary.

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