• Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    There’s also the issue that the US needs to sell bonds at higher and higher yields just to convince them it’s worth the risk.

    As far as I understand it (not an economist), that might lead to a debt spiral.

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      Yeah that’s a related effect as far as I understand, but it depends on how the domestic debt market reacts, as in whether it absorbs the difference. Also it depends on whether the US government continues the policy of issuing debt when creating dollars. They could just stop doing that. They don’t need debt to finance spending, they’ve just historically done so. That said I don’t know if they’d actually do that since they’re ideologically opposed to this sort of monetary policy.