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Re:A strengthening dollar is bad for the world economy by mistermann on Thursday December 01, 2016 @03:46PM (#13083361)
> They de facto reduced the outstanding US debt by several trillion.

How does printing money to buy government bonds reduce the debt?

Re:A strengthening dollar is bad for the world economy by PrimalDual on Thursday December 01, 2016 @07:10PM (#13084857)
It does if you give all of the interests paid on that debt back to the government like the Federal Reserve does.
Re:A strengthening dollar is bad for the world economy by mistermann on Sunday December 04, 2016 @09:01PM (#13102914)
That's the interest payments, what about the debt itself?