• macniel@feddit.org
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    4 days ago

    and yet a country has to pay back debt (hi greece) and when they can’t they are bankrupt.

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      4 days ago

      The USD is a fiat currency. They can just print more to pay back the debt.

      It would cause inflation, but they can’t go bankrupt.

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        4 days ago

        sure its fiat currency, but other countries don’t have to accept it when its less worth than the paper the money was printed on.

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        The amount of money they would need to print in order to pay it back, would cause the kind of inflation that bankrupts a country.