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Of course the government can guarantee all reatail deposits, even if only a very small sum has been "put away" (whatever that means in practice, it's just ones and zeroes in a computer anyway).

The government can print as much money as it wants to cover the deposits. Sure, that will create inflation, but the government only promised to guarantee the deposits, not the value of the currency.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Wed May 20th, 2009 at 03:19:38 AM EST
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"Sure, that will create inflation, but the government only promised to guarantee the deposits, not the value of the currency"

We have a name for this in France, which I won't repeat here. I'm going to leave that honour to Jerome :)

Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! (Martin Luther King)

by ValentinD (walentijn arobase free spot frança) on Wed May 20th, 2009 at 04:54:33 AM EST
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