18th century economist Richard Cantillon theorised that new money added to the economy always reaches the wealthiest people first. If there’s a lot of it, the extra supply will push up prices, but the rich won’t feel it, they’ll just create it. The impact down the track is that the poor, surviving with the same money as before, get hit with the higher p…
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Countering the Cantillon Effect
How Cantillon's observation that only the rich benefit from new money can be countered by more of a balance between public and private sector money creation.
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