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the government can pay people with coins and notes, bank deposits, new bonds, or simply pay a supplier over an extended credit period. It is all shades of the same thing. It does not need to borrow a penny beforehand. It is the expenditure which creates the liability and asset, collectively referred to as "money".
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Mark Wadsworth: Economic Myths: Governments don't issue currency.he same thing and there are the same two sides to each of them - the issuer/borrower has a financial LIABILITY and the holder of the mortgage, bank notes, bank deposit, IOU etc. has a financial ASSET. It always nets off to precisely zero.
So <span>the government can pay people with coins and notes, bank deposits, new bonds, or simply pay a supplier over an extended credit period. It is all shades of the same thing. It does not need to borrow a penny beforehand. It is the expenditure which creates the liability and asset, collectively referred to as "money".
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As a quite separate matter, having printed or issued currency, the government also claws back or unprints money by collectin Summary
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