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That Sinn is the one that wrote in Project Syndicate that:

The printing presses at the Banque de France and the Banca d'Italia are working overtime to make up for the outflow of money. But this only furthers the exodus, because creating more money prevents interest rates from rising to a point at which capital would find it attractive to stay.

This is the second paragraph at
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/two-models-for-europe

That seems to imply that the Banque de France and the Banca d'Italia were printing euronotes, which I think they can't do under the current rules of the BCE, am I wrong? What could he be meaning else?

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by Antoni Jaume on Sun Jul 8th, 2012 at 03:07:25 PM EST
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He's using the tired metaphor "printing money" for crediting bank reserve account balances.

If you are not convinced, try it on someone who has not been entirely debauched by economics. — Piero Sraffa
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Jul 8th, 2012 at 05:20:30 PM EST
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Never heard it. I stil don't understand, how does that lower interest types? (which seems to bother that Sinn guy)

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by Antoni Jaume on Sun Jul 8th, 2012 at 05:30:46 PM EST
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By expanding the money supply (that's what "printing money" is supposed to mean). This would presumably cause inflation (horrors!) and lower interest rates (because of the increased supply of money), both of which are presumably bad for savers.

If you are not convinced, try it on someone who has not been entirely debauched by economics. — Piero Sraffa
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Jul 8th, 2012 at 05:51:00 PM EST
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Quantity of Money Theory  wiki

It was Fisher who (following the pioneering work of Simon Newcomb) formulated the quantity theory of money in terms of the "equation of exchange:" Let M be the total stock of money, P the price level, T the amount of transactions carried out using money, and V the velocity of circulation of money, so that

    M V = P T


It was an advance for its time, which was one of the Gold Standard.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Sun Jul 8th, 2012 at 06:25:35 PM EST
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That seems to imply that the Banque de France and the Banca d'Italia were printing euronotes, which I think they can't do under the current rules of the BCE, am I wrong? What could he be meaning else?

He means that he wants someone who is not the Bundesbank to pay for defending the Bundesbank's currency policy.

- Jake

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by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Sun Jul 8th, 2012 at 07:13:07 PM EST
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