Re:A strengthening dollar is bad for the world economy
by bubbleRefuge on Thursday December 01, 2016 @11:08AM
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Bullshit. We could have 10X the national debt and nothing would happen if its all sitting in the accounts of rich people who don't spend it. Thats the real problem. Also, the natural rate of interest is 0 in government finance because there is no solvency risk.
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Re:A strengthening dollar is bad for the world economy
by nopriorarrests on Thursday December 01, 2016 @11:47AM
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Solvency risk is not the only reason for a positive interest rate.
Let's say that US Government borrows $10 000 from you, for 1 year. This means that you cant spend this 10k next year by investing them into some new cool company or just by eating lot of pizzas and drinking margaritas.
So, you say you don't want to be compensated for this, and you will happily lend 10K with 0% interest rate?
Re:A strengthening dollar is bad for the world economy
by bubbleRefuge on Thursday December 01, 2016 @12:00PM
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if I had a money printing machine yes I wouldn't care. I'd be more interested in the utility to society of the money I was 'lending' .
the be precise: http://moslereconomics.com/wp-content/graphs/2009/07/natural...