The Manila Times

The dangerous appeal of MMT

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MODERN Monetary Theory, or MMT, is the academic argument created to justify the “progressiv­e” ideology of big government and massive public spending. It is a buzzword that

hires a constant contentiou­s issue among hiring managers, Garcia says what his solution offers is something that will be created (from the government’s point of view) at some future

it represents new assets.

At the end of the year, the government needs to balance the books. It has transferre­d P1 trillion in assets (future money) to the public side in exchange for funds (present money) to complete its expenditur­es, but since that money has been spent, it still has an accounting

non-employee referral programs by not just limiting this to applicants since the Scouts base are not necessaril­y applicants of our partner companies. It strengthen­s the external candidate reach of our partner companies via our Scouts which are spread out across the Philippine­s. “

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- mand (everyone has money that they want to spend) and outraces government’s ability to control it. Therefore, the ideal balance according to MMT is an unemployme­nt rate that is just slightly higher than the prevailing in-

continuous­ly increase spending (and

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