Mr Soros seems to think that creating quasi-money constitutes a cost-free way to raise real resources.

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Hence the absurdity of money being funnelled into quasi-partisan groups like the Swift Boat Veterans.

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She emphasized that central banks are limited by their guidelines as to where they can invest their reserves: usually money deposits, government debt, quasi-government debt.

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