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‘Wacky’ or serious? Trillion-dollar coin eyed as workaround to US debt impasse — France 24

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Economics professor L. Randall Wray, a Bard College professor who has championed Modern Money Theory, which de-emphasizes the drawbacks of debt, said the special coin is no wackier than other expansionary financial maneuvers enacted by the Federal Reserve during the pandemic that have involved hundreds of billions of dollars of public and private debt.“It is a work around,” Wray said. “It sort of makes it obvious that the debt limit itself is a pretty stupid idea.”...Wray and others note that massive infusions of liquidity by the Federal Reserve in the wake of the 2008 crisis did not spur inflation….France 24'Wacky' or serious? Trillion-dollar coin eyed as workaround to US debt impasseAlsoRaw StoryCould a trillion-dollar coin stop the GOP from plunging America into recession?AFPDeccan

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Economics professor L. Randall Wray, a Bard College professor who has championed Modern Money Theory, which de-emphasizes the drawbacks of debt, said the special coin is no wackier than other expansionary financial maneuvers enacted by the Federal Reserve during the pandemic that have involved hundreds of billions of dollars of public and private debt.

“It is a work around,” Wray said. “It sort of makes it obvious that the debt limit itself is a pretty stupid idea.”...

Wray and others note that massive infusions of liquidity by the Federal Reserve in the wake of the 2008 crisis did not spur inflation….


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Mike Norman is an economist and veteran trader whose career has spanned over 30 years on Wall Street. He is a former member and trader on the CME, NYMEX, COMEX and NYFE and he managed money for one of the largest hedge funds and ran a prop trading desk for Credit Suisse.

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