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Re:U.S. Secretly Halted JPMorgan’s Growth for Years by zaroth on Monday October 29, 2018 @03:11AM (#18325555)
The government does not have opportunity cost for money that it prints out of thin air.
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Re:U.S. Secretly Halted JPMorgan’s Growth for Years by pas on Monday October 29, 2018 @06:26AM (#18326286)
The Fed can do that. Congress not so much. (Sure, technically Congress can legislate money into being, but there are good reasons why it uses bond auctions to fund its accounts.)
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