Yeah, The Experts are in Charge. Don’t Worry about a Thing.

Jared Bernstein, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers to Joe Biden, is stumped by a pretty obvious question. If the government can print money why does it ever borrow money?

Uh-duh, um…huh?

Yeah, the experts are in charge. Rest easy.

CLIP: We hear a lot about the national debt.
But do currency-issuing governments really ‘borrow' their own currencies?
The answer might surprise you.

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