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Board Economics
Re: us fiscal cliff: what is it?
by
thefiniteidea
on 15/01/2013, 02:27:20 UTC
. . . As a side note, the instance that happens . . . inflation would skyrocket . . .

From a link in the linked article:

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. . . If the Fed was worried about all that newly created money being pumped into circulation, it could always counteract the inflationary effects by selling off the $2 trillion in securities it owns from quantitative easing (thereby taking an equivalent amount of money back out of the economy) . . .
Hahaha sure, and maybe they'll hire Jesus to be their salesman too. So easy to sell off $1 trillion in non-liquid toxic assets, that's why the Fed bought them (and the trillion dollar coin) in the first place...

They obviously make good investments!!!! :-P

I think we're living in that parallel world xxjs was talking about, where we just turn jobs, use our imaginations, and everything just works...