Stephanie Kelton, author of ‘The Deficit Myth’, joined Yahoo Finance Live to discuss Biden’s infrastructure plan and why she thinks he can go bigger. SEANA SMITH: All right. And we want to turn to ...

Should you be worried about the federal deficit? While campaigning, President Donald Trump followed in the footsteps of his conservative predecessors by fear-mongering about the ballooning deficit — ...

As President Donald Trump flirts with breaching Republican orthodoxy by letting tax cuts expire for some higher earners, he’s found support from the lead economic adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 ...

Fiscal policy in a pandemic. We discuss why COVID-19 is giving a bigger voice to economists with very different ways of looking at the deficit. Guests Stephanie Kelton, professor of economics and ...

An article by Stephanie Kelton of MMT fame titled, “Biden Can Go Bigger and Not ‘Pay for It’ the Old Way,” appeared in the New York Times recently. She cautions against increasing taxes to fund ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about economic policy for the 21st century. Since pretty much everyone over the age of twelve knows that printing money ...

Stephanie Kelton would probably have done some things differently, but she couldn’t have asked for a better political and economic backdrop for her new book, The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory ...

Irrespective of what happens from here in the Sino-US trade dispute, investors believe the damage to the global economy is done. Trade uncertainty is probably here to stay, as is populist politics in ...

America’s growing income inequality has long needed attention. Last January, under emergency circumstances, it finally got some, in the form of a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package. The quietly ...

Fiscal policy in a pandemic. We discuss why COVID-19 is giving a bigger voice to economists with very different ways of looking at the deficit. Joseph Stiglitz, professor of economics at Columbia ...