• Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com
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    2 days ago

    No, it’s Modern Monetary Theory which is that all debt creation de facto creates (“prints”) money, so unless you cease all loan creation you’re always printing money, and thus it should be more accepted to use debt to invest in long term projects.

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      20 hours ago

      On Wikipedia it says

      Mmt principals (nr 3) Is limited in its money creation and purchases only by inflation, which accelerates once the real resources (labour, capital and natural resources) of the economy are utilized at full employment

      So you can’t really always print more money, unless you don’t care about inflation (that mostly screws the middle class).

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        20 hours ago

        But you can print more money while labour, capital, and natural resources are not fully utilised - which is a lot more than it is generally done at the moment.