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- From: hippee@oread.cc.ukans.edu
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- Subject: Re: Clinton's Econ Conference and Non-Traditional Economics
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.093624.1@oread.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 15:36:24 GMT
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- In article <9212171412.AA17812@cs.utexas.edu>, wmartin@STL-06SIMA.ARMY.MIL (Will Martin) writes:
- > During the election, I heard various "fringe" candidates, like Bo Gritz,
- > discuss the evils of the Federal Reserve, and how the entire national debt
- > could be wiped out overnight by the production of a single 4-trillion-$
- > coin (actually of negligible intrinsic value), which woul be turned
- > over by the US Government to the Fed and thus negate the entire existing
- > debt. This woul be followed by the elimination of the Fed and the return
- > to United States Notes and eventually a bullion-backed currency.
- >
- > This view and proposal was completely ignored by the mainstream media,
- > and so I've never seen any objective evaluation of this proposal. The only
- > people discussing it were its proponents. So I have no real idea if
- > the plan is or is not feasible. (Has it been discussed on USENET or net
- > mailing lists? Do archives of such discussion exist?)
- >
- > What I was wondering is whether anyone of the multitude participating
- > in Clinton's economic conference brought up this topic and presented it
- > as an alternative to be considered. If it would work, it seems to be a
- > salvation we shoud not ignore. If it would not work, I sure would like
- > to see it rationally refuted by "mainstream" economists.
- >
- > Any comments or pointers to info on this? Thanks!
- >
- > Regards, Will
- > wmartin@st-louis-emh2.army.mil OR wmartin@stl-06sima.army.mil
-
- The minting of money, since it is non-bullion based, must be backed by an
- increase in productivity levels (more goods) or it will result in inflation.
- If the US were to mint such a coin, it would either cause inflation (massive)
- or nothing (since debts would be rescheduled). In either case, though, the
- rating of the US Securities would plummet because the US would have shown
- itself to be attempting to evade its debt (always something debt-holders are
- not fond of). Think of it this way, we can't make our own money because it
- would be worthless (not backed up but anything). The US can't either. In
- fact, during the Weimar Republic (between the wars Germany) this same solutin
- was tried (print more money) and the result was the worst inflation in history
- to that time.
-
- Peace
- Lawrence R. Vaught
- Hippee@oread.cc.ukans.edu
-