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How buying bonds indirectly from the government prevents the central bank from financing government deficit?
From Krugman's macroeconomic textbook (highlighting is mine):
"In an open-market operation the Federal Reserve buys or sells some of
the exist- ing stock of U.S. Treasury bills, normally through ...
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How come there is inflation in a model with no money?
I'm watching the video lectures of Financial Theory (ECON 251) by John Geanakoplos, Yale University. In Lesson 5, Chapter 4 at 33:41, Geanakoplos defined inflation as the ratio of prices between two ...
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