Talk:Sectoral balances

foreign financial surplus
"Hence, a foreign financial surplus (or capital surplus) exists because capital is imported (net) to fund the trade deficit. "

Is that right? Surely money is exported to foreign countries when there is a trade deficit? Mike163 (talk) 17:05, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

GDP
According to Michael Hudson, the government figures on GDP include rentier income. The sectoral balance identity does not include rentier income. It is rentiers who caused the US real estate crash of 2008 and who instantly advised Obama to bail out Wall Street, not Main Street. In the graph at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectoral_balances#/media/File:Sectoral_Financial_Balances_in_U.S._Economy.png the behavior of the Private Sector and Government Sector in 2010 and beyond indicates that the GDP data included includes rentier income because in reality the Private Sector should have been registering in deficit in that period. Lobdillj (talk) 09:27, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

Lobdillj (talk) 13:01, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

This article should be labeled Top Importance
This article goes to the heart of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) Sectoral Balances is a subject that provides a tool for adjusting government spending to achieve near full employment and elimination of poverty in a sovereign nation that issues its own fiat currency. As it stands today it needs much work. The sectoral balance graph presented is problematic in that the terms in the sectoral balance equation must involve exclusively real economy data. No data from the rentier economy must be included. The NIPA data includes contributions from both the real economy and the rentier economy. The graph is for NIPA data obtained from the FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data)available at the St.Louis Federal Reserve Bank. When rentier economy data is merged with real economy data the plots do not balance. I hope someone else will join this discussion. Lobdillj (talk) 20:44, 19 September 2017 (UTC)