Making Money Work for Us, How MMT Can Save America by L Randall Ray

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Modern Monetary Theory or MMT has drawn attention and support from progressives like AOC and Bernie Sanders. In this engaging new book Randy Ray explains what MMT is and how it could revitalize the US. As Ray shows, MMT takes a radical view of government finance arguing that governments can't run out of money and that taxes don't actually fund spending.

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