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What if the US Treasury Could Order the Federal Reserve to Increase the Balance in Its Spending Account Whenever it Needed to Either Spend Congressional Appropriations or Redeem Debt Instruments and Everyone Knew that It Could?

Well, it just so happens, that it can order the Federal Reserve to do that. It’s just that not everyone knows that it can. And among those that know, there […]

Donald Trump has promised a $1 Trillion Infrastructure plan to create jobs, but has been vague about how that would be implemented. In an interesting post, Ellen Brown makes the […]

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Contemplating the likelihood that Hillary Clinton will win the presidential election, and may well carry in with her a Democratic House and Senate Paul Krugman considers what he ought to […]

This book is about a counter-narrative to austerity politics. It exposes its fallacies, and, I hope, its closed-mindedness and futility. It also offers a way out of austerity politics. That […]