$11 Trillion Debt Wave Shows MMT Doesn’t Work

Please consider £11 Trillion Debt Wave as Governments Borrow More Than Ever Before.

Governments need to borrow £11 trillion on financial markets this year, breaking the £10.9 trillion record set in the recession-fighting spending spree at the height of the financial crisis.

Most of this is caused by governments refinancing existing debt mountains as the bonds issued to finance earlier debt-fueled spending mature.

But more than £2 trillion is new borrowing as nations continue to add to their national debts, according to data on rich-world economies from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The US budget deficit hit more than 4% of GDP last year.

Austerity Nonsense

Amidst all this nonsensical talk of austerity, government debt keeps expanding, and expanding, and expanding.

The MMTers will simply come back with claims we need to double debt or triple it, or whatever multiple it takes, effectively embracing AOC’s idiotic Green New Deal.

And where foolish thinking prevails, look no further than Chicago where we have yet Another Idiotic “Free Money” Proposal, This One From Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

In the real world I ask, Tax the Rich! Tax the Rich! How’s it Working Out?

MMTers will respond that government debt doesn’t matter at all. So, why tax anybody? After all, government always spends money wisely.

Mike “Mish” Shedlock