MMT 101: A Reply to Critics Part 1
This is Part 1 of a six part series in which we deal with critics of MMT. As readers of this blog know, our critics continually raise the same old tired critiques of MMT.
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Why Government Spending Can’t Turn the U.S. Into Venezuela
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.
The Bernie Factor in Modern Monetary Theory
Neoliberalism is a rogue military state and it became the orthodoxy through violence. Austerity-induced death. The antidote is MMT.
The 40 Year Slide
The lies were baked into the school system, newspapers, sitcoms, political debates even cartoons took the ideas of neoliberalism into the hearts and minds of our children…the people.
An MMT Tutorial That Covers The Basics
This MMT tutorial provides short answers to several questions.
Stop Using The Term ‘Printing Money’
It’s just a way to give the establishment the tool it needs to stop progress.
End the FEDish: Redirecting Our Anger and Efforts to Save the World
Not “believing in” the insights coming from the MMT lens is denying the institutional reality of how money is created and operationalized.
The Truth About ‘Printing Money’
If government spending is just “printing money” then taxing is simply “unprinting money”. It’s a circuit.
