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What are the other options? Raising interest rates substantially usually causes a recession, balanced budgets always cause a recession.


You will need to provide some evidence to your claims. There is another choice though, stop printing money for a while.


The proof is easy, look at the times the US has had balanced budgets and then look for recessions following a year or so later. Works all the way back to Andrew Jackson's time.

As for stopping printing money, the Fed did that last summer.




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