by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 14, 2020 | • Politics, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Climate Change & Global Warming, Donald Trump, Economics & The Economy, Jobs
The Facts on the ‘Green New Deal’ The text of the legislation, which is a nonbinding resolution , lays out a broad vision for how the country might tackle climate change over the next decade, while creating high-paying jobs and protecting vulnerable...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 6, 2020 | • Politics, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Bernie Sanders, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
“I will be damned if the same politicians who refused to act then are going to try to come back today and say we need to find a middle-of-the-road approach to save our lives. That is too much for me,” Ocasio-Cortez said, after Reuters had reported that Biden was...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 5, 2019 | • Politics, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Economics & The Economy
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a fan of a geeky economic theory called MMT: Here’s a plain-English guide to what it is and why it’s interesting Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) should be “a larger part of the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 7, 2019 | • Politics, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality, Jobs
Democrats’ Twitter war: Should U.S. borrow a lot, or a whole lot? WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Twitter may not be the best place to decide the future of the U.S. economy. But square off a Nobel laureate and a former U.S. Treasury chief against a firebrand...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 4, 2019 | • Politics, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality, Jobs
Bernie Sanders’ 2016 economic advisor Stephanie Kelton on Modern Monetary Theory and the 2020 race With U.S. government Kelton currently works as a professor of public policy and economics at Stony Brook University. Previously, she served as chief economist for...