Should Governments Print Money to Make It through the Pandemic?
By A Mystery Man Writer
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Central banks should consider bona fide debt monetization—money-printing—to help their governments cover some of the costs of the pandemic, argue Greg Feldberg of the Yale Program on Financial Stability and Aidan Lawson, a former YPFS research associate.
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