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Magnifico:
The $700 billion was borrowed. Can anyone explain why should a government have to borrow its own fiat money?

conundrum of the millennium?

bankstas gotta make an indecent living somehow?

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Thu Sep 3rd, 2009 at 05:05:49 AM EST
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