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Securitization and surveillance compel repayment and thus allow for the existence of credit.

Interest rates and the ability to issue credit are mostly orthogonal concepts (interest rates do affect the real and perceived abilities of a debtor to pay back a loan, which does affect creditworthiness).

The sheer majority of "money" in our economy is actually credit/debt. Your bank account balance doesn't indicate a physical pile of money somewhere, rather it's debt the bank owes you. They in turn do things like buy US treasuries which are debt the government owes them, or loan it out as credit card balances which are debt that other consumers owe them. A dollar in your bank account contributes to your own sense of purchasing power AND (for example) the credit card user's purchasing power. Increasing interest rates makes debt less desirable to have, thus decreasing the money supply.

I don't know what you're saying about rates tending towards infinity?




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