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Re:Where has all the money in the world gone? by Retric on Saturday June 23, 2012 @07:00AM (#4150563)
Your making several mistakes with that post. #1 the 14 trillion debt is not a single loan it's millions of them. People pretend that bonds are the same thing as money all the time, but there not. If the government started paying back 0.1% of it's debt a month you would see huge cash flows, but though taxes the same money would be used to pay down different loans several times.

PS: There are valid reasons for treating bonds as cash equivalents, but M1, M2, M3, etc are simply different ways of looking at the money supply.

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