Student Debt: Derailing Lives
Student debt is an intentionally onerous burden. There are reasons we can’t get out from under it.
MMT
RP Live – Money, The Treasury & The Fed with Eric Tymoigne
Say you don’t understand money without saying you don’t understand money. “What if people lose faith in the dollar?” “What if nobody will buy our Treasurys?” “We’d love to have Medicare for All, but we’d need to raise taxes.” In this RP Live, Eric Tymoigne will explain how a monetarily sovereign government creates and spends …
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Towards a Libertarian/Austrian Modern Money Theory
Any time there is an MMT post, the comments are dominated by conspiracy theorists, haters of government, goldbugs, and victims of alien probings who are certain that MMT-ers are united in their effort to ramp up government until it consumes the entire economy.
Blood Money: Student Debt Then And Now
While today’s college lending system may not begin with death… in the United States, the high cost of a college education can have deadly consequences.
16 Reasons Matt Yglesias is Wrong about the Job Guarantee vs. Basic Income
Yes, sending a check to people is not as “messy,” but let’s stop pretending that it’s a panacea for the fundamental problem of economic insecurity.
Tax Bads, Not Goods
Once we understand what taxes are “for”, we can start to think about what kinds of taxes make sense.
A Twelve Step Program to Restore Prosperity: The Bernie Sanders Plan
A summary of Bernie’s 2016 plan with a Randy Wray MMT twist.
An Alternative Meme for Money, Part 6: Alternative Framing on Inflation
If there’s no inflation danger, there is no point in taxing the rich before keystroking the poor.