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 ...

“For every complex problem,” wrote H.L. Mencken, “there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” The issues of “health care, infrastructure, education,” and “climate change” could all be solved ...

1. Modern monetary theory and the case for gold. With central banks around the world loosening monetary policy in response to flagging growth and possible trade-war fallout, modern monetary theory ...

Tick off a loss for the modern monetary theorists amid rising inflation, says InfraCap Founder and CEO Jay Hatfield. Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is a macroeconomic lens which prescribes that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Go here and read the articles under the category "debriefing 101", at least the first dozen. Yeah that's a lot of reading, but it's a complex topic and Bill Mitchell's writing is easy to understand ...