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A comment on Ask HN: Lost Economic Theories: Printing Inflation-Free Money?.

Re:Ask HN: Lost Economic Theories: Printing Inflation-Free M... by jelliclesfarm on Thursday November 05, 2020 @10:25AM (#24999023)
Inflation free money is possible if it’s only used for barter or at least for non speculative economic activities.

That’s my initial thought. I will have to ponder more about this.

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Re:Ask HN: Lost Economic Theories: Printing Inflation-Free M... by alexmingoia on Thursday November 05, 2020 @10:30AM (#24999064)
Yup. Multilateral barter has no inflation or deflation because there can be no “money” that isn’t used.
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