Modern Monetary Theory - MMT
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- National Debt
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“Debt” Ceilings for Dummies
January 10, 2023
Beautifully simple are a sovereign nation’s sectoral balances. They readily demonstrate that the government’s negative is the public’s positive, and vice versa.
Fact-checking Biden’s Inflation Remarks
November 8, 2022
On October 21st, 2022, President Biden made an address regarding his administration’s historic deficit reduction. Let’s break it down.
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.
Sound Money
September 14, 2022
The inflation hawks have a point: inflation is genuinely destabilizing. But where the inflation hawks go wrong is in blaming “money printing” for inflation.
Bad Medicine Root Cause Analysis: Abstractions Are Killing Us
August 9, 2022
Abstractions are invented and agreed upon by us but often become runaway Frankenstein’s monsters when we forget that we made them up.
The Emperor’s New Commodities
July 14, 2022
Frauds and hucksters have always relied on false dichotomies and thought-terminating cliches to misdirect the attention of their audience from more appealing alternatives.
Fed Chairman Powell Wants Higher Unemployment to Stop Inflation
July 13, 2022
Twitter Thread: Consumer Price Index is 9.1%. year over year. The Fed’s solution is to raise interest rates, killing the economy to bring down. A thread …
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.
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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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