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"May I respectfully suggest that before you attempt to comment on something as complex as macroeconomics you take at least a single course in the discipline?"
by tiatia 12y ago
"May I respectfully suggest that before you attempt to comment on something as complex as macroeconomics you take at least a single course in the discipline?"
Did you?
"Central banks can issue currency, a noninterest-bearing claim on the government, effectively without limit. They can discount loans and other assets of banks or other private depository institutions, thereby converting potentially illiquid private assets into riskless claims on the government in the form of deposits at the central bank.
That all of these claims on government are readily accepted reflects the fact that a government cannot become insolvent with respect to obligations in its own currency. A fiat money system, like the ones we have today, can produce such claims without limit. To be sure, if a central bank produces too many, inflation will inexorably rise as will interest rates, and economic activity will inevitably be constrained by the misallocation of resources induced by inflation. If it produces too few, the economy’s expansion also will presumably be constrained by a shortage of the necessary lubricant for transactions. Authorities must struggle continuously to find the proper balance."
Alan Greenspan
- lingben 12y agowhat does that prove? beyond buttressing my points and I suppose showing that you are capable of ctrl+c/v?