Krugman, IMF och sedelpressar

The “safe asset shortage” meme has been gathering force lately, and is now the theme of a report from the IMF (pdf).

The idea is that low long-term interest rates for the United States, the UK, and basically every country with its own currency that doesn’t have large foreign-currency debts reflect the desperate search of investors for something safe to buy.

Paul Krugman,  New York Times 12 April 2012

BBC: Greece does not have its own central bank that print money

Om man har en sedelpress går man inte i konkurs, skrev jag på denna blog den 4 november.

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