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The federal government prints dollars. It is never going to take a loss doing that.
by sbierwagen 5y ago
The federal government prints dollars. It is never going to take a loss doing that.
- danielmarkbruce 5y agoThe federal government does all kinds of things it can take a loss on, and it does in fact take losses. The federal reserve prints dollars and buys government bonds.
- atq2119 5y agoIt can be seen as a loss in an accounting sense, but it's not a loss in the sense it would be for you, me, or, say, Apple, because the federal government is the score keeper of the dollar. I like to think of the "losses" which arise from propping up companies (if any, as pointed out it's not necessarily a loss) as subsidies of undesirable behaviour. In other words, they're a very bad thing, just for a different reason.