On 2013-06-20, at 4:16 PM, nathan tankus wrote:

> I don't know about pen-l but i know the monetary policy i would implement.
> 
> first make the federal reserve an official department of the treasury
> (this is actually how monetary policy worked before the fed). This is
> mostly just political since the fed is already legally a "fiscal
> agent" although it would then mean the treasury could just directly
> spend settlement balances into the banking system (which the treasury
> can already do with the much maligned "platinum" coin). Then set
> interest rates at zero and stop issuing treasury bills. I wouldn't set
> long term interest rates (so no "qe") simply because that would push
> up mark to market wealth inequality and would take too long to
> seriously impact rentiers.

This is consistent with "modern monetary theory", no? 

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