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You want to slow this stuff down? We now have the tech for the Fed, the central bank, to give everyone a bank account directly. It is 100% secure because it is
by IgorPartola 1y ago
You want to slow this stuff down? We now have the tech for the Fed, the central bank, to give everyone a bank account directly. It is 100% secure because it is issued by the central bank and it has a number of amazing benefits:
1. You earn interest at the Fed’s rate. So basically why would you keep your money with Chase earning 0.25% maybe when you can earn easily 10x that. So everyone pretty much moves to this new system.
2. This eliminated speculation. The banks can no longer turn $1 into $30 by repeatedly borrowing and lending. But it is important to slowly grow the money supply. So the Fed can just no questions asked deposit a predefined sum of money every month into everyone’s account.
3. Your transactions are free and guaranteed.
But of course this would cut out a whole lot of banks and other financial institutions out of the loop and so it will never happen.
- boppo1 1y agoWhat are you talking about, "the Fed's rate" 10x what chase offers?
- loeg 1y agoCurrent SOFR (Fed rate) is 4.34%: https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/reference-rates/sofr https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/reference-rates/sofr Banks will offer low yield on cash if you don't go looking for better yield, but it's easy enough to find good yield: money market accounts. E.g., VMFXX throws off 4.21%, which is reasonably close to 4.34. (I don't agree with the general thrust of GP's argument, just clarifying on some neutral facts.)