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Scott Bessent is aware of MMT but he has a faulty understanding of what MMT says, Kelton argues. On the positive side, he is not clueless, like most others. For example, he gets that high rates are may be stimulative and low rates contractive, based on policy outcomes of the Bank of Japan.The LensWhat Trump's Pick for Treasury Secretary Gets Right (and Wrong) about MMTStephanie Kelton | Professor of Public Policy and Economics at Stony Brook University, formerly Democrats' chief economist on the staff of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, and an economic adviser to the 2016 presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders
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Scott Bessent is aware of MMT but he has a faulty understanding of what MMT says, Kelton argues. On the positive side, he is not clueless, like most others. For example, he gets that high rates are may be stimulative and low rates contractive, based on policy outcomes of the Bank of Japan.Scott Bessent is aware of MMT but he has a faulty understanding of what MMT says, Kelton argues. On the positive side, he is not clueless, like most others. For example, he gets that high rates are may be stimulative and low rates contractive, based on policy outcomes of the Bank of Japan.The LensWhat Trump's Pick for Treasury Secretary Gets Right (and Wrong) about MMTStephanie Kelton | Professor of Public Policy and Economics at Stony Brook University, formerly Democrats' chief economist on the staff of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, and an economic adviser to the 2016 presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders
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What Trump's Pick for Treasury Secretary Gets Right (and Wrong) about MMT
Stephanie Kelton | Professor of Public Policy and Economics at Stony Brook University, formerly Democrats' chief economist on the staff of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, and an economic adviser to the 2016 presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders