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This is a key point and why, while China has a high degree of monetary sovereignty, it is not a good example of "MMT" because they hide fiscal spending through

I really appreciate this very, very generous profile from @petercoy but I do want to disagree with the headline, which is reinforced by the article. I do have a credential-

Poverty is not a"lack of money".This is an oversimplification which is dangerous when it comes to macroeconomic poverty response programs.Poverty is deprivation.Deprivation does come from lack of access to individual

Great piece from @DavidVonDrehle"Forced social distancing should give even the busiest academic economists some time to bone up on MMT. It’s not quite the cartoon money machine it has been

What this illustrates, which I think a lot of people miss, is that MMT 101 shouldn't actually be that controversial. The fact that it is and so many people have