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Episode 193: Our Ever-Expanding National Debt

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The Debt Crisis

The debt is already a thing that will never be paid off, says CNN's John Avlon. The question now is how can the government pay for all of this? It started perhaps a year ago with modern monetary theory, where economists magic monetary theory," he said. "MMT is nonsense of the first order"

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