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Amethyst auto translates "wut" to German "rage"🤣

Can you elaborate about on this? “If we were running with a more equity-based system rather than a debt-based fiat system, then an ever-growing currency supply isn’t necessary.” I was thinking about your example from before when 500m are lent, and 200m need to come from somewhere to pay down the debt. What happens in an equity based system if someone does lend? Where does the additional money that needs to exist come from? Cant wrap my mind around this somehow.

Debt would be a tiny fraction of equity and tiny fraction of base money in an equity-based system with finite money. Interest to pay loans would come from the borrower's success at deploying that loan productively. In cases where they cannot pay back, they default. So lenders' interest basically comes indirectly from those who lent and got defaulted on. In a debt-based system, debt levels are pretty high relative to equity, and extremely high relative to base money. Even a rather small default wave is a pretty big percentage of the monetary base, which is why they don't allow it for long and instead print more money.

Thank you Lyn, great work as usual

Wow that’s a lot of stocks in the M1 (or maybe that’s typical), so did you buy small amounts in a lot of stocks right at the beginning? And does net cash flow include dividends and capital gains on stocks you sold?

I guess the security umbrella argument is valid for at most one side per conflict while the other side wonders why it should pay the USA for getting attacked by American weapons. Also, bad timing with the „mineral deal“ and the geopolitical ambitions concerning Panama, Canada, Greenland. There are other nuclear powers that are more reliable.

lending as a zero sum game doesn’t look sustainable. Bad lenders get separated from their money and vanish.

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What an interesting read!!! I just got exposed to questions I didn't even know I have and got them answered too. Thanks, Lyn Alden!

This was such a good read! @Lyn Alden your video on Youtube summarizing Broken Money may have orange pilled my wife yesterday. She loves how well you articulate this complex topic and said “there is no fat in her presentation of the facts”. She wants a copy of your book and I’m buying one right away! nevent1qqsd72gm6aah94nkc22jjk5unuhxeg2wayg9mhwf7lxc4wvxt3sqmzqykccxm

Great article, Lyn! Thanks for the detailed explanations. I've been wondering about your position on the reserve currency status and think I am missing still one piece of the puzzle. The world needs dollars - ok. But why can this demand not be filled by printing dollars and buying gold or other assets instead of buying depreciating goods and services? It could counterbalance dollar overvaluation and keep the industrial base competitive. From my perspective, the root cause of the socio-economic problems is not the trade deficit but the fractional reserve banking and the Cantillon effect, i.e. who profits from the newly created dollars.

Seems to work now, thanks @Lyn Alden!