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Intricacies of The Gold Standard | The Twilight of Gold Series | Episode 6 (WiM153)

The "What is Money?" Show

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Why Would You Ever Restrain Credit?

An abundance of borrowing raises prices. Prices being raised means you have to borrow more to meet prices, if you're running a business. And then the bank has to balance the total number of credit against a fixed money supply. Once you remove the scarcity of money, all you have left is politics, right? That's the only that then it's like, why would you ever restrain credit?

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