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Higher inflation may not be a bad thing at this point

Version II of ad hoc treasury bills needed, and time for this solution to work is between now and October

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The system of issuance of ad hoc treasury bills worked well till Rajiv Gandhi used these bills to finance massive budget deficits

T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan
How do you make a deflated balloon inflate? You blow air into it. And how do you make a deflated economy inflate? By blowing money into it. 

This simple solution is called the Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) by self-important economists. But what the economists don’t tell you is how much money to blow in. You blow too little and the economy remains flaccid. You blow too much and like the balloon it runs the risk of bursting i.e. running into high inflation. 

The world doesn’t give India any credit for finding the right way of dealing with this problem but
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