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To: loreldan
I’m completely ignorant here, but how can we have deflation when the government if printing money like crazy?

It most emphatically IS NOT "printing money like crazy". The 700B bailout, for example, is being financed by borrowing, not printing. Don't be fooled by charts that purport to short growth in the monetary base, but actually show borrowing or transferring. The Fed and Treasury have been very conservative on the printing presses.

15 posted on 11/20/2008 9:05:17 PM PST by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture™)
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To: steve86

Borrowing from who?

Where’s that money going to come from? The monetary base is being expanded one way or another.


39 posted on 11/21/2008 3:38:29 AM PST by ovrtaxt (It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it. ~Henry Allen)
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