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Nathan Tankus on The "Pozsar Moment" In Shadow Banking

Forward Guidance

CHAPTER

The Difference Between MMT and the Federal Government

The current way of thinking about government borrowing is, let's see, tabs, tax and borrow and then spend. MMT has a different model, a stab, a step in capital spending, tax and then borrow that you spend the money first. Nathan: Is it technically true that based on the law, the treasury has to tax and borrow first? The Fed argument, the MMT argument as Stephanie Kelton put it  in her book can't be squared with what was happening at the time.

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