It’s a nominally liberal smokescreen to explain why the US can do whatever it wants with the dollar without discussing imperialism or the US’ chokehold on global financial institutions.
MMT only works when applied to USD based on the extraordinary privilege of being the hegemonic global reserve currency. Any other country will inevitably encounter inflation issues, primarily due to currency devaluation on foreign exchange markets. In fact all instances of hyperinflation have been due to excessive money creation, albeit under extenuating circumstances, typically oppressive foreign debt.
With the accelerating trend of dedollarization, the USD will soon behave like all other currencies, beholden to a nation’s balance of payments.
Not a helpful response but I don’t know that it is. Can someone give me a rundown? I fear that it might be an attempt to recreate the conclusions of Marxist analysis while distancing the field from Marx because communism bad.
it’s something along the lines of, like, “any country with fiat currency effecively has infinite money,” but i don’t know to be honest. at the very least that’s a super basic rundown