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Hyperinflation

Sound Money

Sound Money

October 21, 2024September 14, 2022 by Cory Doctorow

The inflation hawks have a point: inflation is genuinely destabilizing. But where the inflation hawks go wrong is in blaming “money printing” for inflation.

Categories Economic Justice Tags Hyperinflation, Inflation
A Hyperinflation Hyperventilator Cannot Be Reasoned With

A Hyperinflation Hyperventilator Cannot Be Reasoned With

November 24, 2024December 5, 2020 by Steven D. Grumbine

Quite frankly… you are not worth the effort. Come back to me when you are ready to talk in good faith.

Categories Economic Justice Tags Hyperinflation, MMT, Venezuela, Weimar, Zimbabwe
Weimar Hyperinflation

Weimar Republic Hyperinflation Through a Modern Monetary Theory Lens

November 24, 2024November 14, 2020 by Warren Mosler

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.

Categories Academic Tags Hyperinflation, Inflation, MMT, Weimar
Ayn Rand and the Missing Gun

Ayn Rand and the Missing Gun

November 26, 2024September 29, 2020 by Nathan Locke

Ayn Rand might be dead wrong, but that hasn’t stopped her ideas from having a profound effect on Congress.

Categories Op Ed Tags Hyperinflation, Inflation, Libertarian, Weimar

Why Government Spending Can’t Turn the U.S. Into Venezuela

November 24, 2024August 31, 2020 by Fadhel Kaboub

When poor countries fall prey to inflation, it’s not because they’re “too socialist.” The ris­ing pop­u­lar­i­ty of mod­ern mon­e­tary the­o­ry (MMT) has inevitably brought mis­con­cep­tions.

Categories Academic, Economic Justice Tags Colonialism, Hyperinflation, IMF, Inflation, MMT, Venezuela

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