Modern Monetary Theory - MMT
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- Federal Reserve
- Hyperinflation
- Inflation
- Job Guarantee
- MMT 101
- MMT Academics
- MMT Rebuttal
- National Debt
- Social Security
- Taxation
MMP Blog #14 Responses
December 21, 2023
Comments and responses on the Modern Money Primer Part 14.
MMP Blog #13: Commodity Money Coins? Metalism vs. Nominalism, Part 2
December 21, 2023
This week, we examine coinage from Roman times to the present in Western society.
MMP Blog #10 Responses
December 20, 2023
Comments and responses on the Modern Money Primer Part 10.
Macroeconomic System for Climate Change
January 10, 2021
Enables a sovereign government to spend whatever fiat currency is necessary to enable and assist its collective society to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
Let’s Get Down to Business and Understand Some Practical Economics
September 17, 2016
It’s time for you to stop allowing yourself to get sidetracked with old thinking.
Keeping Score
October 27, 2020
I promise to stop when the battle is won. Until then, here’s another attempt to improve understanding and shift our broken thinking about government “deficits.”
Is Bernie short $17 trillion on his healthcare plan?
August 12, 2016
Bbbbbut Bernie is $17 trillion short on his healthcare plan… relax Francis…
Funding The Revolution: Trying to make econ fun to learn
Invoke 1881a Now Biden
August 13, 2021
“The fact we are still under a national public health emergency … should make everyone stand up and demand President Biden invoke Section 1881A immediately.”
If You Really Care About Social Security, Stop Capitulating To The Left
July 17, 2021
Let’s start telling the truth about Social Security. We are educators. So let’s educate people on the basic facts.
How would Job Guarantee wages be set?
September 16, 2020
It is Wednesday so some snippets and some music – sad music this week because it signals the death of one of the great pioneers …
How Banks Create Money When They Lend
September 22, 2022
It is up to academics and informed lay-people alike to alter the understanding of banking in the public consciousness.
Hands off Social Security and Medicare
September 25, 2018
Sixty-one million people receive social security benefits, forty-four million people use Medicare, with seventy million people enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP.
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Why we need to debunk the 'deficit myth' - BBC REEL
Government spending is increasing at an unprecedented rate to deal with the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Many people worry this could burden future generations.
However, economist Stephanie Kelton, author of The Deficit Myth, argues that we need to rethink our attitudes towards government spending.
Could Modern Monetary Theory help us navigate our way out of this crisis – and even help build a fairer economy?
Producer: Dan John
Animation: Jacqueline Nixon
(Republished with permission from the BBC)
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