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Old 04-20-2010, 03:33 PM  
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Originally Posted by mayabong View Post

You still didn't answer my question though, why does the government borrow money from the FED (in your case itself) at interest. (immediately putting itself into debt) When it can print it itself not worry about the debt? Of course the government has to borrow more money from the fed AT INTEREST to pay off the debt. Do you see the never ending spiral here? Why would I borrow money from myself and charge myself interest.. haha
I did answer your question. It's more practical to borrow from an existing supply of money with interest, than to create a new supply of money and further debase the currency.
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