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Statistical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-08-10 01:15 PM
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4. That is a strawman.
Doesn't change the fact that the idea in the OP is silly.

Of course so far govt deficit spending hasn't changed the recovery from jobless recovery to real recovery.
Even if it were you can't get something for nothing.

I mean why stop at deficits. Lets take it to the logical conclusion. If what is proposed in the OP worked why not just do this:
The federal reserve could simply print $14 trillion take that $14 trillion give it to the Treasury.
The treasury will then pay off every outstanding T-bond.

TADA!!!! magic just like that 200 years of federal debt gone. Why can't we do that? Once you figure that out it becomes obvious the OP is simply a smaller version of the same "wealth from nothing" silliness.
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  -Something to do about the debt that the Catfood Commission refuses to consider. eridani  Jun-08-10 04:07 AM   #0 
  - Where would the Fed get the money to buy these debt obligations?  Pab Sungenis   Jun-08-10 07:27 AM   #1 
     - Exactly.  Statistical   Jun-08-10 08:00 AM   #2 
     - Continued jobless recovery is not an option either. n/t  eridani   Jun-08-10 11:50 AM   #3 
     - That is a strawman.  Statistical   Jun-08-10 01:15 PM   #4 
        - Real wealth is our human and natural capital  eridani   Jun-08-10 03:51 PM   #5 
        - Once again a strawman.  Statistical   Jun-08-10 03:55 PM   #6 
           - It's not a strawman.  girl gone mad   Jun-08-10 05:10 PM   #9 
              - Never said it wasn't.  Statistical   Jun-08-10 06:09 PM   #10 
        - But aren't you overlooking the fact that some of the fourteen trillions has been  truedelphi   Jun-09-10 10:32 PM   #13 
     - Why would anyone issue private debt, or why would any sovereign currency issuing government..  girl gone mad   Jun-08-10 05:07 PM   #8 
     - Printing is not "prohibitively inflationary".  girl gone mad   Jun-08-10 05:05 PM   #7 
        - Girl gone mad ..... A question  econoclast   Jun-09-10 07:31 AM   #11 
           - I'm talking about generalized inflation..  girl gone mad   Jun-09-10 04:45 PM   #12 
              - You are making my point  econoclast   Jun-10-10 07:32 AM   #14 
                 - I think I heard a discordant note in that tune...  jtuck004   Jun-10-10 11:09 AM   #15 
                    - Tone deaf maybe?  econoclast   Jun-11-10 07:39 AM   #16 
 

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