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Comment by nixon_why69

5 hours ago

No, it's literally just bitflips. The supply of dollars increases by trillions a year between fractional reserve banking and, depending on the year, fed policy. We're not even printing them.

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groundzeros2015  5 hours ago

Indeed. And according to MMT what that does is claim economic output for the government (work resources etc), without direct taxation.

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