By Glenn Stehle
When Stephanie Kelton spoke of orthodox economics and its “one size fits all perspective” in her recent lecture at the Fields Institute, it got me to thinking that when it comes to deficit hawks, they really know how to do sin right. And like all good religious fundamentalists, proportionality never enters the picture. One sin takes precedence over all others, others becoming unimportant in the ardor to root out the one true evil.
