What is the relationship between debt intolerance and the ...

[fox]

What is the relationship between debt intolerance and the inflation tax?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

If the level of government spending rises and simultaneously there is a fall in the money stock, we definitely know that
 
  a. income will rise.
  b. the change in the interest rate will be ambiguous.
  c. income will fall.
  d. the interest rate will fall.
  e. None of the above

[Chou]

Answer to Question 1

A government that is unable to borrow (at a reasonable cost) is likely to resort to selling its debt to the central bank, raising the money supply and inflation. As the price level rises, the real seignorage falls, so that a constant budget deficit requires an ever larger growth rate of the money supply and acceleration of inflation. This phenomenon helps to explain how creditors become intolerant of the government's debt in the first place.

Answer to Question 2

E

[fox]

Thank you

[Chou]

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