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Re: Fed on brink of fifth(?) round of quantitative easing
by
o_e_l_e_o
on 21/07/2023, 06:20:50 UTC
no one is "writing off" student debt, they're just forcing american taxpayers to pay it for these former students many of whom can afford to pay it themself but don't want to because they want someone else to pay it for them even though they agreed to pay it back themself when they got the loans.
As franky1 has explained, no money is actually changing hands. They are simply writing off liabilities. You know, just like they did for billions in PPP loans fraudulently taken out by billionaires. Roll Eyes

the only time it gets devalued is when we print more of it. that only happens at certain points in time, not "all the time".
I assure you it happens all the time. Only around 3% of new money is printed by the government. 97% of new money comes from regular banks being fractional reserve and creating new money out of thin air every single time they hand out a loan, a mortgage, a line of credit, and so on, just like when they handed out these student loans. If anything you should be angry about the student loans existing in the first place since they created a whole bunch of new money out of thin air.

banks are a necessary part of modern society thus we have to keep them running.
But people aren't? Billions to bail out banks which are worth hundreds of billions, but let people be made homeless and starve because fuck them? Lol.

he might as well be paying people 10k in cash because it has the same affect.
Not even close.

wrong. now that everyone knows student loans are unenforceable and the government really doesn't require them to be repaid, no one is going to worry about making their payments on time. if at all.
And now that banks know they can do anything they like and still get bailed out, they won't worry about playing by the rules at all.

i don't know about that franky. they paid out cold hard cash so students could pay tuition, rent, food,etc and now you're telling me that cold hard cash was just imaginary? well then who did it come from?
Thin air. That's how banks make loans. Have a read of this paper from the Bank of England: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-bulletin/2014/money-creation-in-the-modern-economy.pdf