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Suppose that one could open a treasuries account and use it as a deposit account. Suppose furthermore that the Treasury added electronic payment feature so you could transfer to other treasury accounts and private bank accounts. Now let's limit this to say 100K or something reasonable. Maybe deposits only earn interest in 4 month blocks so if you do a lot of transactions, you don't earn.
by rootless2 on Wed Feb 29th, 2012 at 12:53:00 PM EST
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Uh-huh. What would this change?

At least in Sweden, you can already deposit your cash with the National Debt Office, which is more or less a wing of the central bank (their job is to manage the national debt and borrowing money for the sovereign). They also make it possible for private individuals to buy Swedish sovereign bonds and bills.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid on Thu Mar 1st, 2012 at 05:42:32 AM EST
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