Heterodox
And then there are the mini-Bots, a parallel currency system very reminiscent of what Yanis Varoufakis proposed for Greece. Basically, they would allow the government to pay some of its domestic obligations (suppliers etc.) in the form of IOUs, which could then in turn be used to pay taxes and -other- government services. They would leave what is domestic, domestic.There’s a lot of talk about this being a first step towards leaving the euro, but why should that be so? The main ‘threat’ lies...
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