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  • Re: When can the fed print more money?

    See Rothbard's What Has Government Done to Our Money . When a regular person buys a government bond, that person is spending money they had to have somehow received beforehand from someone else. That is, it must have been money that was already in circulation. When the Federal Reserve buys government...
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by hjmaiere on Sun, Apr 13 2008
  • Re: Professor's Response in Favor of Fractional-Reserve Banking -- How should I respond?

    [quote]There is a good case to be made that banking, like many social needs, is a federal not a local issue, and so should have a federal bank. Interstate commerce is regulated by the federal government, not state governments. This is constitutional. You make many claims that I do not agree with about...
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by krazy kaju on Fri, Apr 4 2008
  • Re: A video on banking today

    Money as debt is a good educational video of how the system works but it's socialized solution is something that could be compared to the FED itself. The amount of money created (liability) in the economy should equal to that of the production (asset) of a nation thereby offsetting each other and...
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by 86thefed on Sat, Dec 22 2007
  • Contractual Fractional Reserve Banking

    Just tonight, I was talking to someone about how the market entails natural regulations, regulations which the government perverts and negates through its own coercive regulations. I gave the example of our banking industry which, thanks to Big Government, is essentially completely unregulated. Banks...
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by allixpeeke on Mon, Nov 26 2007
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