Are We MMT-ing Yet?
Barron's Streetwise
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🗓️ 17 July 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | First, the bad news. |
| 0:01.6 | SAP Business AI won't generate amusing holiday cards. |
| 0:04.7 | But it will personalize career paths for your people |
| 0:06.9 | and let you know which suppliers are best, |
| 0:08.7 | so you can be ready for the next opportunity. |
| 0:10.7 | Revolutionary technology, real world results. That's SAP business AI. |
| 0:15.0 | We could get into a situation late summer where we are today in the fall and even into next year and |
| 0:25.0 | possibly beyond where we have the capacity to provide sustained fiscal support but |
| 0:31.3 | we let our fear of adding to the national debt or of large |
| 0:36.2 | deficits prevent us from doing what we could and should be doing. Welcome to the Barron Streetwise Podcast. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm Jack Howe. |
| 0:48.0 | The voice you just heard, that's Stephanie Kelton. |
| 0:51.0 | She's an economics professor at Stony Brook University and the informal leader of a movement called |
| 0:57.6 | Modern Monetary Theory, which says that government debt and deficits in the United States in particular |
| 1:05.0 | are less worrisome than they appear and that the government should spend much more to manage the economic downturn. |
| 1:12.0 | In a moment we'll hear more from |
| 1:13.9 | Stephanie Kelton and look at what our... |
| 1:16.0 | Oh my God, I'm sorry. It couldn't be alive. I take it there's some construction going on outside your home. |
| 1:28.3 | There is a major construction going on right outside my window. |
| 1:33.0 | Good, it's economic activity and that's exactly what we're looking for. |
| 1:36.5 | Let me continue. |
| 1:37.5 | In a moment, we'll hear more from Stephanie Kelton and look at what our pandemic spending might mean for the stock market. |
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