It’s labeled modern monetary theory or MMT. I have read a few efforts to explain this concept and frankly, I would use the late President Bush’s term to best describe it: voodoo economics.

So far, Musk has taken a sledgehammer to the U.S. Agency for International Development, setting off alarm bells, and is ...

The country is about to get a lot sicker now that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is head of the Health and Human Services Department.

Freddie Smith suggests that "basic survival used to be far more affordable" in the 1980s, but that costs have skyrocketed in recent years.

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham said other committees will be instructed to come up with spending reductions from other government ...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams thanked the Justice Department on Tuesday for directing prosecutors to drop the federal case ...

Two of the most commonly accepted theories for the origin of money are the commodity theory and the chartalist theory. Both ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A new theory suggests that money may have originated from long-distance trade rather than internal barter or state imposition. This theory posits that pre-state ...

The piggy bank originated about 500 years ago at the dawn of capitalism, when ordinary people started to possess silver coins ...

Mainstream economics tells us that we need a growing money supply to keep an economy growing. But what if a growing money ...

Modern Love is a weekly column, a book, a podcast and a television show about relationships, feelings, betrayals and revelations. Modern Love is a weekly column, a book, a podcast and a television ...

Seasonally adjusted M2+ (gross) is the sum of seasonally adjusted M2 (gross) plus the seasonally adjusted sum of deposits at non-banks and money market mutual funds, plus adjustment items as described ...