The #MMT Case for Progressive Taxes
MMT advocate typically shy away from calling for progressive taxes. A case as to why that’s a lost opportunity.
Read more...MMT advocate typically shy away from calling for progressive taxes. A case as to why that’s a lost opportunity.
Read more...Chronicling and debunking more scurrilous attacks against MMT.
Read more...A high-level discussion of some of the operational issues posed by a Green New Deal.
Read more...Funny how considering MMT brings out the worst in some people….
Read more...Randy Wray wades in yet again to contend with disinformation about MMT.
Read more...The ECB again rides in to try to paper over fundamental problems with the EU’s structure and to offset is austerity bias by restarting QE. But the EU needs more government spending. Will it take another crisis to get there?
Read more...Using laboratory experiments, the column shows that privacy matters, and increases the overall appeal of money.
Read more...On the remarkable surge of interest in and attacks against MMT by mainstream economists and pundits.
Read more...Debunking some arguments against MMT by explaining why the US Treasury can’t run out of money.
Read more...Larry Summers as a negative indicator.
Read more...The debate over the Green New Deal reinforces why government policy should focus on real resource constraints.
Read more...Doug Henwood’s intellectually dishonest attack on MMT sadly shows how many soi-disant progressives are in fact hostage to neoliberal ideas.
Read more...While some protestors outside France are using the yellow vest to make demands for and end to austerity and greater economic fairness, in some countries, far right wingers are taking up the costume.
Read more...Warren Buffett hasn’t yet become an MMT advocate, but he’s officially decided that worrying about Federal deficits is besides the point.
Read more...A recent Wall Street Journal article that tried debunking MMT effectively supported it.
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