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Where to Start Learning About MMT
Steven D. Grumbine
Have you recently discovered MMT or Modern Monetary Theory and want to learn more but aren’t sure where to start? Well, start at the beginning, of course!
The Pied Piper of State Based Single Payer Initiatives
Jonathan Kadmon
Only a unified policy implemented simultaneously across all states and territories can get the job done, and only the federal government with its power to deficit spend can pull it off.
The National Debt and Other Red Herrings
Jonathan Kadmon
Discussions of inflation are often laden with an air of superstition and moral panic. Like all such things they can only persist in the face of misunderstanding and rumor.
Single Payer “State by State”? No. Here’s why…
Geoff Ginter
There really is only one way to go, and we can only get there by all rowing in the same direction at the same time and forcing the federal government to enact, and fully fund, single-payer healthcare – Medicare For All.
Money Growth Does Not Cause Inflation!
John T. Harvey
It is conventional wisdom that printing more money causes inflation. The only problem is, it’s not true. That’s not how inflation works.
The Psychology of Collective Solutions
Jonathan Kadmon
Alone as individuals we are vulnerable and only human. Those human limitations put a ceiling on our freedom and our power to shape a better world. But collectively as a community we are so very much more.
When Will America Declare War on Climate-Change?
J.D. ALT
A declaration of war is a legal framework that sets in motion a process of “mobilization” in which the national government directs real resources—labor, engineering expertise, technology, material—toward the goal of defeating an enemy threat.
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Back to [MMT] Basics
Steven D. Grumbine
From the definition of a dollar as a unit of measure all the way to what The Fed is and how public policy can be informed – Grumbine runs the gamut on MMT basics.
The Dilemma of the Cooperative Gene
J.D. ALT
Given the relationship between “money” and real resources, it is impossible to equitably “share” real resources, and effectively create collective goods, when money is a scarce commodity controlled by competition.