Steve Keen is an iconoclast economist who is sympathetic to MMT claims that right-wingers worry too much about government budget deficits. However, in a recent post Keen says that Trump Admin economists (such as Stephen Miran) make more sense on trade deficits than Warren Mosler does.

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