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Re:The Trillion Dollar Website (a story of quantitative easing) by dev_jim on Monday January 10, 2011 @01:52PM (#2089331)
Currency is not a debt. Money in general is a store of value and a unit of account. You can buy things with money, you can't buy things with debt.
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Re:The Trillion Dollar Website (a story of quantitative easing) by thomasrynne on Monday January 10, 2011 @03:04PM (#2089554)
In general, currency is not a debt, but in practise it is. See http://www.moneyasdebt.net/
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