yes but bert is an economist........
bert comes to the argument by saying “Imagine you have a cookie”
Problem solved
Zero cookies divided by one imaginary cookie yields -1 Cookies
Heh— good one, bert! You have to imagine you have a cookie, sort of like the “imagining” of digital Fed Reserve money.
Reminiscent of the Beverly Hillbillies jokes about the character Jethro Bodine who “learned to cypher” (a mountain people term for calculation, multiplication tables memorization etc.). You may or may not recall this- from a long time back...but, for a laugh—
“Cipher something, Jethro”... and Jethro demonstrates his “goes intos” division tables:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H8e0MMwUec
Imaginary money (or is that cookie integers?) -— does that not have to ever be paid back to us, the People? As in billions the TARP program forced on banks by GWB’s Treas. Hank Paulson to cover the crash of realestate mortgage derivatives that were worth...nothing in reality (Paulson a former/current whatever VP at Goldman Sachs at the time!) Wells Fargo was forced to take over bad paper of Wachovia for example.
Zero cookies-— indeed, again... good one bert! Made the noon time!