Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) simply describes how our monetary system actually works. Its explanatory power doesn’t depend on ideology or political party. […] At any point in time, every economy faces a sort of speed limit, regulated by the availability of its real productive resources — the state of technology and the quantity and quality of its land, workers, factories, machines and other materials. If any government tries to spend too much into an economy that’s already running at full speed, inflation will accelerate. So there are limits. However, the limits are not in our government’s ability to spend money or to sustain large deficits.
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