Alexandria Ocasio Cortez | Rationally Thinking Out Loud http://rationallythinkingoutloud.com Just one guy thinking out loud on a the issues in religion, atheism, politics & science Sun, 05 May 2019 05:49:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.2 The Answer To How We Can Pay For This Nice Stuff… http://rationallythinkingoutloud.com/the-answer-to-how-we-can-pay-for-this-nice-stuff/ http://rationallythinkingoutloud.com/the-answer-to-how-we-can-pay-for-this-nice-stuff/#respond Sun, 05 May 2019 05:49:30 +0000 http://rationallythinkingoutloud.com/?p=119081 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 conversation” in an interview with Insider in January. MMT is a big departure from conventional economic […]

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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 conversation” in an interview with Insider in January. MMT is a big departure from conventional economic theory. It proposes governments that control their own currency can spend freely, as they can always create more money to pay off debts in their own currency.

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Democrats’ Twitter war: Should U.S. borrow a lot, or a whole lot? | Reuters http://rationallythinkingoutloud.com/democrats-twitter-war-should-u-s-borrow-a-lot-or-a-whole-lot-reuters/ http://rationallythinkingoutloud.com/democrats-twitter-war-should-u-s-borrow-a-lot-or-a-whole-lot-reuters/#respond Thu, 07 Mar 2019 05:07:05 +0000 http://rationallythinkingoutloud.com/?p=118973 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 professor from a state university in New York, and an […]

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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 professor from a state university in New York, and an otherwise obscure debate over “modern monetary theory,” or MMT, becomes a center ring battle over how the Democratic Party should shape economic policy ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

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Bernie Sanders’ economic advisor Stephanie Kelton on MMT and 2020 race http://rationallythinkingoutloud.com/bernie-sanders-economic-advisor-stephanie-kelton-on-mmt-and-2020-race/ http://rationallythinkingoutloud.com/bernie-sanders-economic-advisor-stephanie-kelton-on-mmt-and-2020-race/#respond Mon, 04 Mar 2019 22:48:57 +0000 http://rationallythinkingoutloud.com/?p=118960 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 the Democrats on the U.S. Senate Budget Committee and was a senior economic advisor to […]

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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 the Democrats on the U.S. Senate Budget Committee and was a senior economic advisor to Below is the Q&A with Kelton, edited for time and clarity.

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