And You Thought You Knew Monopoly

There is an emerging school of economic thought, Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), that describes: “the workings of modern money systems, where a government responsible for fiscal policy (taxing and spending) is a monopoly  currency issuer, issuing a non-commodity-based floating exchange rate currency” To better understand the cause(s) of the financial melt-down of 2007, many prominent economists developed…