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Re:What happened to all the gold Spain got from the New Worl... by marcosdumay on Friday December 26, 2025 @11:05PM (#46399034)
If you are talking about the US, the COVID money needed to be distributed to the people, not to rich investors to buy stock and land.
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Re:What happened to all the gold Spain got from the New Worl... by colechristensen on Saturday December 27, 2025 @10:29AM (#46402531)
... $900+ billion dollars in the US were given directly to the people.
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Re:What happened to all the gold Spain got from the New Worl... by marcosdumay on Saturday December 27, 2025 @01:05PM (#46403756)
If you use the most restrictive definition of money available, they printed 16 trillions:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL

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