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Re:How Fake Money Saved Brazil (2010) by gone35 on Sunday September 04, 2016 @03:28AM (#12423239)
Nope. You would be surprised, but it is indeed the same thing. See e.g. Sec. 29-2 in [1] (or any other undergraduate econ 101 textbook, for that matter).

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=K-jKAgAAQBAJ

Re:How Fake Money Saved Brazil (2010) by jomamaxx on Sunday September 04, 2016 @04:11AM (#12423346)
No. You are 100% wrong.

Not believing that there is any sound economic principle to validate your position, I checked your reference:

Your reference says nothing other than a few, very basic things about how the Fed is structured. It says absolutely nothing about the difference between 'raising debt + open market bond purchases' (how the fed does it) - vs. the hyperinflationairy issues related to governments that influence their central banks and basically print money.

So not only are you wrong - but your borderline lying by posting references that have nothing to do with anything.

In summary: aside from taxation, the US government generally can only raise money by issuing debt. They cannot print money willy nilly as they do in places like Brazil.

Re:How Fake Money Saved Brazil (2010) by gone35 on Sunday September 04, 2016 @04:15AM (#12423351)
So not only are you wrong - but your borderline lying by posting references that have nothing to do with anything.

I see. Nevermind.