infrastructure: finance as everyone’s business


public finance, like the law, is a social construct; it’s what we all agree it to be

opinion alert: personal value statement follows

foundations of money and credit: not products to let banks profit, but infrastructure to let people prosper

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Japan may show the rest of us how to spend on worthwhile infrastructure projects by printing money, that is, by moving the interest on new national debt down to zero percent and keeping it there; the next step is to move away from fractional reserve banking by moving the reserve requirement up to one hundred percent and keeping it there.

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