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When they can't get the interest payments they'll set up debtors' prisons. Since they can create money by extending loans to each other, they can monetize the future hard labour at these debtors' prisons in order to pay themselves the interest they're due.

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by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Jun 6th, 2010 at 12:19:54 PM EST
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