funny money vs. soaking the fat boys

2000-03-23 Thread Doug Henwood
Ellen Frank wrote: Instead the Fed restricts its lending to financial institutions. Yeah, but it doesn't do much of that; discount window borrowings are pretty rare. It's all open market operations. I thought, though, that under the 1980 law - called something like the Depository

Re: Re: funny money vs. soaking the fat boys

2000-03-23 Thread Doug Henwood
Ellen Frank wrote: Well, the fat boys can be soaked via taxes and other forms of expropriation or the rich can be by-passed altogether, by creating alternative forms of social wealth. These are not mutually exclusive. That's what I don't get - how can you bypass the rich. If money and capital