{"id":13387,"date":"2025-09-09T11:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/?p=13387"},"modified":"2025-09-09T11:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:43:12","slug":"staatsschulden-erklaert-profitiert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/latest\/staatsschulden-erklaert-profitiert\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Update: Government Deficits; Why They Happen, Who Benefits From Them, and MMT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"row justify-content-md-center pb-3\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<p class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">This episode was recorded in June this year and Professor Wolff explains what deficits are and why the capitalist system enables and invites employers to cause them. He then proceeds to explain how deficits both solve specific problems of capitalism while also causing others. Over time, problems accumulate to undermine the credit of the US and bring economic crisis. Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is shown to offer one way out of the crisis by changing how money is created.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"row justify-content-md-center pb-3\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<p>Economic Update with Richard D. 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