How to Solve the Debt Problem

Tecumsehsbones

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It's blindingly simple, really. We print our own money!

So. . .

Print up 20 one-trillion dollar bills. Hand them to our creditors.

Problem solved. Next?
 

captain morgan

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This is a nice design.... Seemed to work really well for Zimbabwe

 

Hoid

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its right because we will be using a currency that has no backing, therefore our money will be worthless, therefore to buy anything with it will be next to impossible.
 

OpposingDigit

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Hi! Hoid:

The only thing backing the currency is "The Promise To Pay On Demand". and which the amount to be "Paid On Demand" can easily be changed by the whim of any government. It is the same with any fractional reserve currency system.

Other than that notes of currency are worthless.

Money is just a "Myth". It is created out of thin air. It is not the government who creates money. It is the banks which do that.

The fable which they sell as “Finance” or “Economic Theory” might very well be a load of crap.

People believe in an Economic Theory in the same way they believe in a God.

People read the bible and they read anything into it that they want. The myth is carried on from generation to generation. But, it is still a myth.

Each theory is just another brand of religion where an economist claims that God is speaking directly to him.

In ancient times of kings and queens, they used to have court magicians.

Nobody knew or understood the magic.

And the magicians even dressed differently than others of the court. (As bankers do today with suits and ties.)

The “Economic System” itself is a “Myth” propagated by “Magicians” who afforded themselves the costs of a higher education and “Purchased” a PHD or an SH?T after their names. The same way that a Christian Preacher attends a religious institution and leaves with a “Certificate Of Christendom”.

Economic “Myth” is “Preached” and “Enforced” by the military and police complex, and when required (and on command), by our religious leaders as well.

Economists perform the same tasks and for the same reason for which magicians played their essential roles during olden times with Kings and Queens.

It is all a “Confidence Myth”.

The Economist has only one mission in life and that is to further propagate the myth with “Magical” charts and drawings and claiming them to be “Truth”. A successful economist must sell his magic in the same way a Jehovah Witness sells their beliefs.

The Federal Reserve members are no different than the myth of the 12 Apostles at the Last Supper.

The economy is moving or changing at the speed of light .... Money is invented at the speed of light .... Simple Computer Monitor Blips.
 

Hoid

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one minute video explaining hyper inflation - starts with Zimbabwe printing a one hundred trillion dollar bill.

I understand that one minute is more time than you normally commit to research.


www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-PNlhhVhZ8
 
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Curious Cdn

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So it took a barrel of money to buy a loaf of bread. So what?

The NAZIs were able to make good use of that societal dysfunction. Hyperinflation scared everyone and pushed lots of Germans into the waiting arms of fascism ... sort of like MAGA.
 

White_Unifier

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The NAZIs were able to make good use of that societal dysfunction. Hyperinflation scared everyone and pushed lots of Germans into the waiting arms of fascism ... sort of like MAGA.

I'm sure Tekbones was being sarcastic in the OP. But he does raise a valid point. As government debt grows, what are its options? It can declare bankruptcy. But let's not assume that all lenders are rich bankers. Some working-class people manage to lend money to the government too. They won't be happy to learn that the government won't pay their money back.

The government could print its way out of debt. While inflation hurts everyone, it hurts the poor even more. The rich can hedge at least their discretionary income. The poor have no discretionary income to hedge against inflation so all they can do is take the brunt of it. If inflation were a tax, it would be a mostly regressive tax forcing the poor to pay a larger share of their income. That's not a good option either.

But what is the solution when government debts gets so out of control?
 

Curious Cdn

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I'm sure Tekbones was being sarcastic in the OP. But he does raise a valid point. As government debt grows, what are its options? It can declare bankruptcy. But let's not assume that all lenders are rich bankers. Some working-class people manage to lend money to the government too. They won't be happy to learn that the government won't pay their money back.

The government could print its way out of debt. While inflation hurts everyone, it hurts the poor even more. The rich can hedge at least their discretionary income. The poor have no discretionary income to hedge against inflation so all they can do is take the brunt of it. If inflation were a tax, it would be a mostly regressive tax forcing the poor to pay a larger share of their income. That's not a good option either.

But what is the solution when government debts gets so out of control?

The Guillotine ...
 

Tecumsehsbones

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See, the reason you're all idiots is that you're all happily following the Pied Pipers (Cap'n Morgan and Haemorrhoid) down the Zimbabwe path, not recognizing the key difference.