J.D. Alt: Will the Democrats Change the Subject?
Will the Democrats get out of their own way?
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Read more...A critique of the bad-model-induced fear-mongering over Italy’s proposed budget deficits
Read more...What could the European Commission do if it decided to discipline Italy for defying budget rules?
Read more...A short history of MMT and and overview of core principles.
Read more...Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continues to be in the limelight. Is she getting her political footing yet? And will she live up to her “democratic socialist” brand, or is she getting more cozy than necessary with establishment Democrats?
Read more...Debunking the misconceptions about the role of debt of a currency issuer like the US or UK.
Read more...A reminder that the budgetary “paying for things” framing is a way to deny resources to citizens.
Read more...Central banks need to stop fighting the last war.
Read more...An in-depth look at Marriner Eccles’ ideas and policies, and how well they have withstood the test of time.
Read more...Central banks have not always been independent, inflation targeting bodies, and to treat them as such is to obscure their complex histories and alternative institutional constellations.
Read more...Gerald Epstein dissects the Trump Administration happy talk about the state of the economy.
Read more...Bolstering, rather than cutting, Social Security is the solution to America’s retirement train wreck.
Read more...To understand labor productivity—and growing inequality—you have to look at the “dual economy”
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis revisits the Greece 2015 debt negotiations and describes how Greece still wears the austerity yoke.
Read more...Why the currency crisis in Turkey is a due in part to the failure to take adequate corrective measures after the global financial crisis.
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