> MMT argues that governments in control of their own currencies, like the U.S. and Japan, aren’t constrained in the ways standard economics says they are. They may risk stoking inflation or running out of resources if they spend too much -- but they can’t go broke.

I'm a bit confused. My impression is that this is overwhelmingly the dominant view in mainstream political discourse. My impression is that, at least in the United States, it's considered fairly radical to talk seriously about significant spending cuts, balancing the budget, or even having the slightest concern at all about budget deficits or national debt.