Thread by @CantillonCH

Reading all these calls for ‘stimulus’, one wonders, if Constantine XI had had a ‘technology we call the printing press’ would his city not have fallen to the besieging Ottomans in 1453.
Shame he hadn’t heard of Gutenberg’s newly invented gizmo...
#Fed #UST #coronavirus #ECB

“The bad news, Tommy, iss for your ze war iss over. Ze good is, your RAF has parachuted in a packet of £5 notes to ease your captivity”
#coronavirus #stimulus #centralbanks #HelicopterMoney

Imagine if, during the Berlin Airlift, General Lucius Clay had not bothered flyng in food and fuel, but had just dropped Greenbacks.

You think Stalin might have chuckled?
#stimulus #coronavirus #COVID2019 #centralbanks #fiscal

“To coin a phrase, ‘veni, vidi, vici’, my Gallic captive.”
“Vae victis, as MY ancestor said. Had those idiots, Vercassivellaunus and Commius brought me French francs, not 60,000 extra cavalry, it would be YOU headed for death in the arena.”
#stimulus #centralbanks #helicopters

“No, Cassandra, all we need to do to drive the Danaans from many-towered Ilion is to issue each of our people with a purse full of silver beaten into discs, which will one day be called ‘coins’”
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A lack of “Greybacks” was clearly what ‘Drove Old Dixie Down” at Vicksburg, too.
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“Well, they’ve got a very good base money section, but not enough tenners, that’s for sure.”
“Print! come on, print!”
#centralbank #fiscalstimulus #coronavirus

“Pressé fortement sur ma droite, mon centre cède, impossible de me mouvoir, beaucoup des euros émis, situation excellente, j'attaque!”
Ferdinand Foch
#fiscalstimulus #Fed #ECB #BOJ #coronavirus

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