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Episode 305: How Did We Get Here?

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Is Modern Monetary Theory Correct?

Sally Kohn: Modern monetary theory maintained that you can pretty much print as much money as you want. She says the government is printing massive amounts of money, and we're not seeing the inflation. Kohn: So what happened? The money growth during COVID, this is to pay for all the checks that we got. And in fact, if you look at the S&P 500, on average, the S-P returns 12% per year prior to CO VID, after COvid, 17%.

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