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Episode 107: Modern Monetary Theory The Government as Referee, Player, and Scorekeeper

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The Fed's Increase in the Money Supply

When the government spends and that spending is funded by the Federal Reserve purchasing the Treasury, we now have dollars flowing into the economy that weren't there before. So it's an increase in the money supply. That money's got to come from somewhere. Although it's spending it, it's going to come out of the taxpayers' pockets.

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