EPISODE · Aug 14, 2019
My appearance on the MMT podcast
from Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com · host Cory Doctorow
I’ve been following the Modern Monetary Theory debate for about 18 months, and I’m largely a convert: governments spend money into existence and tax it out of existence, and government deficit spending is only inflationary if it’s bidding against the private sector for goods or services, which means that the government could guarantee every unemployed... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2019/08/14/my-appearance-on-the-mmt-podcast/" class="more-link" title="Read My appearance on the MMT podcast">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>
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I’ve been following the Modern Monetary Theory debate for about 18 months, and I’m largely a convert: governments spend money into existence and tax it out of existence, and government deficit spending is only inflationary if it’s bidding against the private sector for goods or services, which means that the government could guarantee every unemployed... more
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