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Time to Stop Believing Deficit Bullshit — Barry Ritholtz

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There is a rational middle between Zero deficits on one side and Modern Monetary Theorists on the other. We can fix our infrastructure, extend broadband to everyone throughout the country, even work to moderate climate change — and the economy will be just fine.At the very least, can we at least raise the bar for the always-wrongs? Those who have been consistently wrong about the dangers of deficits for so long should no longer get the benefit of the doubt. When your core philosophy or a key belief of your ideology is proven wrong — and you refuse to admit error or change — then it is time for everyone else to call out your Bullshit....The Big PictureTime to Stop Believing Deficit BullshitBarry Ritholtz

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There is a rational middle between Zero deficits on one side and Modern Monetary Theorists on the other. We can fix our infrastructure, extend broadband to everyone throughout the country, even work to moderate climate change — and the economy will be just fine.

At the very least, can we at least raise the bar for the always-wrongs? Those who have been consistently wrong about the dangers of deficits for so long should no longer get the benefit of the doubt. When your core philosophy or a key belief of your ideology is proven wrong — and you refuse to admit error or change — then it is time for everyone else to call out your Bullshit....

The Big Picture
Time to Stop Believing Deficit Bullshit
Barry Ritholtz

Mike Norman
Mike Norman is an economist and veteran trader whose career has spanned over 30 years on Wall Street. He is a former member and trader on the CME, NYMEX, COMEX and NYFE and he managed money for one of the largest hedge funds and ran a prop trading desk for Credit Suisse.

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