Re:The Invention of Money
by epistasis on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @10:15AM
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That's a shocking amount of inaccuracy to pack into a single sentence!
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It is!
I've been trying to think of a more compact/dense incorrect sentence for a bit now, and I can't really think of an alternative. (Although some of the political screeds from the election of 1800 might have been close, and I have yet to go mine twitter for examples)
Re:The Invention of Money
by yellowstuff on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @10:24AM
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This is a close competitor:
> For those who don't know how the Fed works: technically, there are a series of stages. Generally the Treasury puts out bonds to the public, and the Fed buys them back. The Fed then loans the money thus created to other banks at a special low rate of interest ('the prime rate')...
Also from "Debt, The First 5000 Years".