If Japan, with a ten-year head start, provides us with the blueprint for monetizing excessive government debt, then the Federal Reserve is in for a race! If we look to the Eurozone, we can say that for over seven years now, newly imitated government bonds have been bought almost exclusively by the European Central Bank. There is no market for junk paper and bankrupt states! This policy of government debt is highly inflationary, as the state acts solely as a consumer on the markets with freshly printed money and does not add any services of its own. Citizens must protect themselves from this robbery. Japan only escaped consumer price inflation because it suffered a demographic collapse.
Small nuance here: the ECB is only buying up some countries' bonds, and intentionally NOT some other countries' bonds to prevent the yield spread between the fiscally sound Northern and fiscally unsound Southern euro area members growing "too big" (i.e. reflecting the real default risk).
This basically means citizens from the northern Member States are paying a higher than necessary interest rate (via taxes) and the inverse goes for citizens from southern Member States. Essentially a wealth redistribution from North to South
It's euphemistically called the "Transmission Protection Instrument" 🤦‍♀️
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absolutely correct. a few months ago I came across a statistic that showed that the southern states of the eurozone have not sold any new imitation government bonds on the free market for about 7 years. they went directly via the banks to the ECB. A disaster. zero interest rates for the start high capital costs for the private economy, leading to the crowding out of the economy. a total decline
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Our central banks have gone from being "lender of last resort" for the banking system to "lender of first resort" for our governments...
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They are the state.all the other bullshit like the welfare state or the press are nothing more than the masquerade of this power
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