The impact of the post-meltdown Federal Reserve policy of ultra-low interest rates and Quantitative Easing (QE) on income and wealth inequality has become an important policy and political issue. Critics have argued that by raising asset prices, near-zero interest rates and QE have significantly...

Introduction: Strange bedfellows and the rise of the modern money theory -- MMT basics and the sustainability of money financed deficits -- Institutional specificity and the limited policy relevance of modern money theory -- The role of the dollar as an international currency and its limits in a...