Discover Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), a macroeconomic theory of government spending and debt management. Explore its ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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Why is Modern Monetary Theory back in the spotlight? The leader of the Green Party, Zack Polanski – whose more assertive, charismatic and left-populist tenure has seen the party dramatically surge in ...

Merryn Somerset Webb speaks with Panmure Liberum Chief Economist Simon French to unpack Modern Monetary Theory—the idea that governments issuing their own currency can spend freely, constrained only ...

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 ...