An Alternative Meme For Money, Part 7: Framing Deficits
A government deficit will result if the nongovernment sector has a surplus—a perfectly sustainable balance.
A government deficit will result if the nongovernment sector has a surplus—a perfectly sustainable balance.
It is difficult to believe that our economy can continue to grow robustly as the government sucks disposable income and wealth from the private sector by running surpluses.
Understanding how federal finance works makes for better predictions and sensible policy.
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.
This MMT tutorial provides short answers to several questions.