MMT is essentially post-Keynesian: it observes that although the current system still legally operates as though on gold (the government must borrow to spend), under fiat the government could simply spend or print, and inflation is avoided not by the gold-era constraint but by directing printed money toward productive capacity (nuclear plants, semiconductor factories) so increased goods-and-services supply offsets the money-supply increase.

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Lynn Alden

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if you print money and do something productive with it, like build a bunch of nuclear power plants or semiconductor factories... then you'll have more supply of goods and services offsetting the increase in the money supply

Source

Our Financial Predicament From a Systems Perspective with Lyn Alden | TGS 188Nate Hagens
Created: 6/18/2026, 1:58:51 PM

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