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To: BfloGuy
Every dollar the central bank creates benefits the early recipients of the money—the government and the banking sector — at the expense of the late recipients of the money, the wage earners, and the poor...

Hmmm.... a phenomenon shared between the dollar and bitcoin. The nebulous founders of BTC own "tons" of BTC at dollar equivalents of pennies, now valued around $838.

3 posted on 02/01/2014 4:16:48 PM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: C210N; BfloGuy
Every dollar the central bank creates benefits the early recipients of the money—the government and the banking sector

I always loved this claim.

The Fed buys a bond, yielding say 2.6% to 4.5%, from a bank, giving them in return, cash yielding 0.25%.

How is that a benefit to the banking sector?

18 posted on 02/01/2014 9:08:14 PM PST by Toddsterpatriot (Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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