{"id":62430,"date":"2025-03-14T12:37:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T01:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=62430"},"modified":"2025-03-14T12:37:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T01:37:48","slug":"episode-12-s2-of-the-smith-family-manga-is-now-available-mrs-boff-is-called-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=62430","title":{"rendered":"Episode 12 (S2) of the Smith Family Manga is now available \u2013 Mrs Boff is called in!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today (March 14, 2025), MMTed releases Episode 12 in the Second Season of our Manga series – The Smith Family and their Adventures with Money<\/a>. This is the final episode in Season 2. There is a lot going on in the community at present with an election approaching and the government in crisis over its deliberate recession. Have a bit of fun with it while learning Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and circulate it to those who you think will benefit. Season 3 will begin on May 23, 2025 and there will be some shocking developments revealed.<\/p>\n

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The Smith Family is a middle-class family living in a city somewhere in the world. The second-generation parents are university educated and have professional occupations. Their two kids attend the local public school.<\/p>\n

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Episode 12 opens with Ryan couch surfing at his brother’s apartment after Elizabeth had thrown him out over his drinking and gambling.<\/p>\n

After years of believing in the dictates of Professor Noitawl who is the conservative TV network’s star commentator, Ryan is at a crisis point.<\/p>\n

He has been unemployed for months and there is no hope for a job while the economy is so depressed.<\/p>\n

He supported the government’s austerity strategy because the Professor said it would reduce the debt mountain, which Ryan had become convinced was a major problem for the nation and his family.<\/p>\n

The Finance Show begins and Noitawl is at it again this time telling the anchor that the mass unemployment is not a problem because economic theory tells us that the jobless have chosen leisure over work because it gives them more satisfaction.<\/p>\n

Ryan has had enough.<\/p>\n

He didn’t choose to be unemployed – he was sacked.<\/p>\n

He followed Noitawl’s advice and offered to work for lower pay which his boss just laughed at – no sales, no need for labour no matter how cheap it becomes.<\/p>\n

Ryan reflects on what Elizabeth and son Kevin have been saying for ages about Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and its application to the real world and starts softening his position.<\/p>\n

He is basically confused.<\/p>\n

In Season 3, Ryan makes some changes – we will see what they are when Episode 1 is published later in May.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the major national election debate is underway and the Prime Minister and the Opposition leader are going head to head over fiscal matters and climate change.<\/p>\n

The Opposition leader stuns the PM by announcing her party will scrap the issuance of government debt and introduce a Job Guarantee.<\/p>\n

No debt issuance – no debt mountain.<\/p>\n

Scare campaign nullified.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth and Kevin are very excited by the Opposition’s promises and consider the PM to be delusional.<\/p>\n

The Episode ends with the PM making a major national announcement about the state of fiscal affairs in the country.<\/p>\n

Mrs Boff enters the scene and historians might detect some words from the PM that Denis Healey might have said back in 1976.<\/p>\n

Confused? Read this H.M. Treasury document – The IMF Crisis: 40 Years On<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you have any feedback we will appreciate it, other than ‘this sucks’.<\/p>\n

ACCESS SITE<\/a><\/p>\n

The manga is available in both English and Japanese.<\/p>\n

We are now taking a short Manga break before releasing Season 3 on May 23, 2025, where things are predicted to get really interesting.<\/p>\n

A trailer for Season 3 might read like this:<\/p>\n

TRAILER FOR SEASON 3<\/p>\n

Who wins the election?<\/p>\n

What is Ryan planning – a complete change of tack?<\/p>\n

Will Elizabeth take Ryan back?<\/p>\n

What will Professor Noitawl have to say about the current state of affairs.<\/p>\n

The kids head to Japan on a school excursion.<\/p>\n

A visitor from Africa gets the kids at school thinking.<\/p>\n

George Jones gets out of prison and learns what Eva has been up to in the lambo.<\/p>\n

That is enough for today!<\/p>\n

(c) Copyright 2025 William Mitchell. All Rights Reserved. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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