The past never truly stays where it belongs. Even when the truth is carefully scrubbed from our understanding of history, its spores disperse through time to seep into the firmament like a persistent black mold poisoning the air we breathe.
A great explainer video from students of Eric Tymoigne at Lewis & Clark College.
“By what process, I wondered, have we convinced ourselves that we do not have enough U.S. Dollars to pay ourselves to create the goods and services we need to prosper as a society?”
Honest economists can be a great help to the world, unfortunately the orthodoxy is more concerned with defending their lofty station than finding solutions.
The orthodox economic attack on MMT should be a ‘slam dunk’ – if orthodox economists were correct about MMT.
Bernie gave up on the fight long before we did and his actions have made it clear he no longer fights for the same ideals.
What power actually fears is that their carefully crafted illusions will go up in smoke.
Frauds and hucksters have always relied on false dichotomies and thought-terminating cliches to misdirect the attention of their audience from more appealing alternatives.
..corporate media have increasingly taken to branding realities inconvenient to US information goals