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Comment by staplers

4 days ago

and liabilities are always paid back in full and never smoothed over with money printing bailouts.

I don't understand the point you're making.

All kind of assets can lose value overnight, be it stocks or real estate.

  • Lending on no reserve secretly doubles the money supply, sometimes even more if repackaged multiple times. It creates a highly risky financial environment that taxpayers inevitably are forced to bailout (usually through layoffs and hyperinflation). Time and time again.

    • It's crazy how far you just tried to change the subject. At first you were claiming loans aren't assets, which is uncontroversially wrong. Now you're claiming lending creates money, which is a completely different statement, and uncontroversially true