Trump: “you could say in one sense we’re really increasing values and maybe in a sense we’re reducing debt.”

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Trump trying the same tactic as the MMT people trying to simply point out that non-govt asset increases can be viewed as offsetting govt liability increases: https://t.co/RIi82OYgik Wherein MSNBC hosts have to explain to Donald Trump how the federal debt and stock market work. ??? #DumpTrump — Cat #Resistance ❄️ (@midUSAmom) October 13, 2017 Being met with same ignorance in response by the unqualified journalists and unqualified political economists and disgraced libertarians.Good luck to him; MMT people have been trying the same tactic for 20 years and have gotten  noooooooooowherrrrrrrrrre...

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