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Old May 2, 2002 | 4:02 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by MileKing:
The government doesn't get revenue in return for issuing money.</font>
Huh? Although I can't recall specific numbers, we did a case on this in a macro class I took from Paul Romer and the upshot was that the printing of currency and t-bills is an extremely lucrative business for the US government.

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