Hello, listeners, it's your host, Pete Davis here.

We've got a great bonus episode that just went live on the bird feed today.

It's on what I believe is one of the biggest waves that is about to hit politics in America.

Modern Monetary Theory.

For those of you who don't know, the modern monetary theory, or

MMT community, is a rag-tag band of economists, politicians, and activists who are arguing

that the way people in power think about money, government spending, and deficits is all wrong. And their

alternative way of seeing money has revolutionary consequences. I have two big MMTers, Rohan Gray,

and Raul Carrillo of the Modern Money Network on the bird feed today in a bonus episode

to explain MMT from the ground up and get you questioning everything you thought you knew

about debt, deficits, spending, and money. An excerpt from the episode is coming shortly, but if you want to hear the full episode,

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If you don't want to do that, that's totally fine too.

We'll have another episode on the main feed for free shortly.

But for now, here's me, Raoul, and Roan.

By the Infinity Sign, what you mean is we can just start spending money as the federal government on things that we want.

So if we want a tank built, we can pass a bill to build the tank and build the tank.

Or if we want a federal jobs program, we can pass a bill to start paying people money for a federal

jobs program. So the listener is thinking, this is the first idea that a seventh grader has in their

middle school economics thing, which is in their middle school economics class, which is, oh,

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