Can a new economic theory revolutionize our ability to tackle the climate crisis? An underdog group of economists is on a mission to instigate a paradigm shift, by flipping our understanding of the national debt — and the nature of money — upside down. With a ‘debt ceiling’ debate and threat of default taking over headlines for the past six months in the U.S., many people find themselves asking - what is the national debt anyway? And why would the issuer of the U.S. dollar ever need to borrow
