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danaris
on March 23, 2020
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Ask HN: How bad will the 2020 economic crisis be?
...Can you clarify "helicopter money"? That's not a term I've heard before.
harambae
on March 24, 2020
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It's a term coined by Milton Friedman many years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter_money
throwaway3563
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I think it’s a term for any kind of unconditional stimulus; everyone getting automatically it as if it was cash dropped from helicopters.
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