Have we been living in an MMT world since 2008?

Tags: Monetary Theory, Other Schools of Thought, Money and Banks

08/07/2024 Joseph T. Salerno

What we may call the “spending illusion” is perhaps the gravest error in the history of economic thought and has been deeply embedded in economics since the early twentieth century.

Original Article: Have we been living in an MMT world since 2008?

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