The “cosmic” forces leading the US to MMT
The question of inflation brings us to a larger ongoing debate on the merits, or otherwise, of an increasingly popular idea called Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). The core idea of MMT is that governments who issue debts in their own currency can never default. After all, they can always print money to repay their debts, if needed.
Are America’s stimulus checks inflationary?
With the US government handing out stimulus payments, concerns over the risk of inflation are rising in investors’ minds. Read on to know why we believe that core inflation will not pose a threat.