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nixon_why69today at 2:06 PM1 replyview on HN

No, it's literally just bitflips. The supply of dollars increases by trillions a year between fractional reserve banking and, depending on the year, fed policy. We're not even printing them.


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groundzeros2015today at 2:40 PM

Indeed. And according to MMT what that does is claim economic output for the government (work resources etc), without direct taxation.