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    For those that are curious, this is possible because the US has monetary sovereignty in a fiat currency. This means that the federal government is able to allocate literally trillions of dollars more than the annual budget without harming the economy in any way, because a vast majority of US debt (and deficit) is to the US federal government.

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        Thanks for the podcast recommendation! I’ve been needing more things to listen to during work

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        Every country I know about has a fiat currency, but the monetary sovereignty bit is also important. Governments within the EU don’t have monetary sovereignty, and therefore are limited by taxation. The EU as a whole could do the same thing, because they are the body that controls the Euro.

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        If you talk about currencies that are backed in gold, then none. The last country to abolish the Gold standard was Switzerland at some point in the 1990s.

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        What are you confused about? This is basic Modern Monetary Theory. The US government just decides that funding genocide is more worthwhile than helping the citizens.

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        It’s completely garbage economics. Some innumerate people think that printing money indefinitely won’t lead to hyper inflation.