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Europe Against the Markets

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Piketty, T. (2017). Europe Against the Markets. In Piketty, T. Chronicles: On Our Political and Economic Crisis. Penguin Books, pp. 62-64

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And despite persistent beliefs to the contrary, “printing money” doesn’t translate into massive inflation: when you’re on the edge of a depression, the main problem is avoiding a deflationary spiral. Between September and December 2008, the ECB and the Fed created nearly €2 trillion in new money (10 percent of European or American GDP) and lent it at 0 percent interest to private banks. That helped avoid cascading bankruptcies, without any additional inflation. [...]

—p.64 by Thomas Piketty 6 years, 8 months ago

And despite persistent beliefs to the contrary, “printing money” doesn’t translate into massive inflation: when you’re on the edge of a depression, the main problem is avoiding a deflationary spiral. Between September and December 2008, the ECB and the Fed created nearly €2 trillion in new money (10 percent of European or American GDP) and lent it at 0 percent interest to private banks. That helped avoid cascading bankruptcies, without any additional inflation. [...]

—p.64 by Thomas Piketty 6 years, 8 months ago