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... point, because those whose misunderstanding gets additional buttress here will in any event find hundreds of information sources, being created to sell to Wall Street, that buttress the same misunderstanding.

But I think the point can be made in language that directly reflects actual monetary institutions, even if it is not belaboring the point about what those institutions are.

That is, no, a diary cannot be written that is simultaneously about both this topic and the actual rules that govern modern monetary institutions ... because a diary can only coherently be about so much at one time ... but it can be written in the simple shorthands of the chartalist Banker's school rather than the simple shorthands of the quantity theory Treasury school.


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by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Wed Feb 27th, 2008 at 06:23:36 PM EST
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Right, it's about being careful about word choices and turns of phrase. It may take a paragraph to explain why one expression is better than other but that is not necessary. It suffices to phrase the discussion in the right frame.

We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Feb 27th, 2008 at 06:30:42 PM EST
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Yikes - I can't handle metaphysics after a glass of wine, but this sounds like metanomics which is more than I can handle any time...

"It's a mystery to me - the game commences, For the usual fee - plus expenses, Confidential information - it's in my diary..."
by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Wed Feb 27th, 2008 at 07:22:45 PM EST
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... its just Meta about talking about our economies versus talking in the conventional language of traditional marginalist economics.


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by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Thu Feb 28th, 2008 at 01:36:55 PM EST
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