For decades, the Democrats have had a lot of electoral success playing to what Americans for Tax Reform founder Grover Norquist labeled the “takings coalition,” namely a huge assortment of interest ...

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Good ideas don’t always outcompete bad ones. But willful foolishness usually has a cost. So it is with modern monetary theory. Ironically, this basket of economic fallacies, embraced by policymakers ...

Few words spark more anxiety in public debate than "national debt" and "government deficit." National debt is the total amount of money the government owes, accumulated over years of running deficits.

Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) says countries that spend, tax and borrow in their own currency shouldn’t worry about government deficits because they can print as much money as they need. Traditional ...

In our June Housing Market Indicators briefing, we introduced the concept of Modern Finance Theory (MFT), which we summarize as follows: The government, in an effort to make housing and higher ...

The pandemic has offered economist Stephanie Kelton a chance to help turn Modern Monetary Theory into practice. What if the federal deficit didn’t actually matter? Modern Monetary Theory explained ...