{"id":663705,"date":"2020-08-12T09:10:05","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T13:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=663705"},"modified":"2020-08-12T09:10:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T13:10:05","slug":"trillions-in-coronavirus-spending-is-putting-aocs-favorite-economic-theory-to-the-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=663705","title":{"rendered":"Trillions in coronavirus spending is putting AOC&#039;s favorite economic theory to the test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French philosopher Voltaire famously quipped: &#8220;If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.&#8221; Something similar can be said of modern monetary theory, also known as MMT, because it may be the economy&#8217;s only hope to get through the pandemic.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-08-trillions-coronavirus-aoc-favorite-economic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Trillions in coronavirus spending is putting AOC&#8217;s favorite economic theory to the test<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French philosopher Voltaire famously quipped: &#8220;If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.&#8221; Something similar can be said of modern monetary theory, also known as MMT,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=663705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=663705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=663705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=663705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}