Episode 23: Deficits Don't Matter - Greg Hannsgen
You Don't Have to Yell
English - January 09, 2020 22:20 - 30 minutes - 41.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsPolitics News History currentevents history centrist politics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The idea a country can take out all the debt it wants and not go into default sounds like eating donuts to six pack abs, but it's one of the tenets of Modern Monetary Theory.
Economist Greg Hannsgen joins me to explain the nuances behind MMT, and the things that are scarier than our $24 trillion national debt.