Modern Monetary Theory - MMT
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- Federal Reserve
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- Inflation
- Job Guarantee
- MMT 101
- MMT Academics
- MMT Rebuttal
- National Debt
- Social Security
- Taxation
When Will America Declare War on Climate-Change?
August 14, 2021
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.
What the Government Doesn’t Want You to Know: It Can Fully Fund Anything
January 13, 2017
What if I told you that everything we have been taught about US economics is wrong? Before your eyes start to glaze over in anticipation of boring economic jargon, let me acquaint you with 5 simple facts that might just wake you up.
What Should Brazilian Economists and Policy Makers have Learned from the Crisis?
June 12, 2022
By now (2012), economists should know better than to rely on private borrowing alone to keep economies from underperforming.
What is the difference between Monetary Policy and Fiscal Policy Part I
June 12, 2019
This two-part series explains what monetary and fiscal policy are and the differences between the two.
What is the difference between Monetary Policy and Fiscal Policy Part II
July 16, 2019
Part II of this series on the differences between monetary and fiscal policy addresses the operations between the central bank and private banks.
What Is Money?
May 5, 2019
Any object can serve as a form of money, from rocks and sticks to cigarettes and gum, or from paper bills and coins to electronic records and coupons. What lies beyond the currency is the willingness of others to accept that form of currency.
What is Economics?
April 2, 2019
Economics is the study of how societies allocate limited resources (such as land, water, human labor, or machinery) among the wants of those societies, recognizing that wants are seemingly unlimited.
What if the Public Understood How Money Works?
May 27, 2023
The truth about federal finance used to be common household knowledge, maybe it should be again.
What Are Taxes For? The MMT Approach
May 29, 2023
Sovereign government does not really need revenue in its own currency in order to spend.
Weimar Republic Hyperinflation Through a Modern Monetary Theory Lens
November 14, 2020
In this article, we dispute the mainstream view that the inflation of the Weimar Republic was caused by a proactive expansion of the stock of money by the German government acting in concert with the Reichsbank.
We Are Already Doing More Than Just ‘Seriously Discussing’ MMT
March 25, 2019
Once you stop being afraid, you can objectively learn.
Warren Mosler’s Crisis Management Proposal
September 27, 2020
These were my proposals back in March. Now, with 20-20 hindsight, and some 8 months on, seems I wouldn’t change a thing…
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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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