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Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast
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Financing - Is There a Revenue Constraint?
Timothy Stanley: MMT is about replacing perceived revenue constraint tax dollars with an inflation constraint. He says if you try to push things too far and go after resources that somebody else is already using, you're going to create dislocations and problems in the economy. Stanley: The government can do that by offering to employ people by giving contracts or building infrastructure. "It's essentially the government not doing things that productively increase the productivity frontier of real capacity"
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