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pydrytoday at 5:55 PM0 repliesview on HN

>governments don't literally just print money, but sells bonds at market rates

no, sometimes they literally do exactly that.

google for quantitative easing. that's what it is and it's a tool that can always be used by monetarily sovereign countries to bring bond interest rates down by as much as they want.

insolvency thus isnt possible.