{"id":605,"date":"2024-09-02T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=605"},"modified":"2024-09-02T15:02:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T21:02:41","slug":"why-krugman-hates-mmt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=605","title":{"rendered":"Why Krugman Hates MMT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe id=\"odysee-iframe\" style=\"width:100%; aspect-ratio:16 \/ 9;\" src=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/$\/embed\/@MarginalNonHermit:3\/why-krugman-hates-mmt:f?r=8gvoByECHNgc2BfQ5o91oxf89bpi1Ui4\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I had a fun thought the other day: Why is it that Keynesian shills like Paul Krugman usually don&#8217;t like Modern Monetary Theory?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">After all, both of them promote the same irresponsible and destructive policies of massive government spending and interference with the market&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">My theory: Krugman hates MMT because MMT is so ignorant and simplistic that <em>even politicians<\/em> can parrot its tautologies-turned-arguments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This leaves Krugman and his ilk out on the curb, which is why he doesn&#8217;t like it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Watch the video for more! Available on <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@MarginalNonHermit:3\/why-krugman-hates-mmt:f\">Odysee<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/old.bitchute.com\/video\/uIbmLLiVJYY3\/\">BitChute<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1e8_sgO_U2A\">YouTube<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a fun thought the other day: Why is it that Keynesian shills like Paul Krugman usually don&#8217;t like Modern Monetary Theory? After all, both of them promote the same irresponsible and destructive policies of massive government spending and interference with the market&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,2],"tags":[37,63,217,218,215,118,72,219],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economics","category-political","category-satire","category-video-link","tag-economics","tag-fiat-money","tag-funny","tag-krugman","tag-mmt","tag-modern-monetary-theory","tag-politics","tag-satire"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marginalnonhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/inflation.png?fit=800%2C329&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}