The theories of Karl Marx have more to do with Modern Monetary Theory than you may realize.
Tag: MMT
The Medicaid Crisis That Shouldn’t Exist
State budgets remain weak a decade after the recession, especially in red states that have cut taxes on corporations and high-income residents. Medicaid, the state-level healthcare program for low-income residents, is particularly vulnerable to an economic downturn. Low-income residents’ healthcare is imperiled as a consequence. But there is another way forward.
Creating money does not cause inflation (and what is inflation anyway?)
“Inflation the Boogeyman” has absolutely nothing to do with inflation in reality.
A Florida tragedy and the economics of a better world
A Florida couple with chronic ailments, a pile of medical debt, and a “mercy-killing.” It doesn’t have to be this way.
What MMT has revealed to me about our government and society (it ain’t good)
MMT doesn’t draw these conclusions, I do. MMT just makes them painfully obvious.
Legalized bribery is bad. Reporting on it is good.
What’s “fueling the Democratic Civil War“ is not the exposing of corruption but the corruption itself. Because of this POLITICO hit-piece (filled with cowardly anonymous sources), I am now the newest non-billionaire financial backer of The Intercept at $100 a year. Consider joining me.
