<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Monetary Policy on Cassette Future Magazine</title><link>https://anarchygames.org/magazine/tags/monetary-policy/</link><description>Recent content in Monetary Policy on Cassette Future Magazine</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:31:44 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://anarchygames.org/magazine/tags/monetary-policy/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Those Big, Beautiful Galactic Bonds: Hell, or a Different Hell</title><link>https://anarchygames.org/magazine/2026/04/those-big-beautiful-galactic-bonds-hell-or-a-different-hell/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:31:44 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://anarchygames.org/magazine/2026/04/those-big-beautiful-galactic-bonds-hell-or-a-different-hell/</guid><description>&lt;h1 id="those-big-beautiful-galactic-bonds-hell-or-a-different-hell"&gt;Those Big, Beautiful Galactic Bonds: Hell, or a Different Hell&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Alright, let me break this down—&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Somewhere right now, a perfectly reasonable person in a mid-tier colony station is sitting across from a financial advisor at &lt;strong&gt;Stellar Financial&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;Orion Trust&lt;/strong&gt;, and that advisor is sliding a brochure across the table with a very calming color palette. Lots of deep blues. Maybe a nebula. The brochure says something like &lt;em&gt;&amp;lsquo;Interstellar Assembly Bonds: Stability You Can Count On.&amp;rsquo;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Samuelson's Beautiful Lies: The Giffen Good, Economics' Most Beloved Unicorn</title><link>https://anarchygames.org/magazine/2026/03/samuelsons-beautiful-lies-the-giffen-good-economics-most-beloved-unicorn/</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:20:42 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://anarchygames.org/magazine/2026/03/samuelsons-beautiful-lies-the-giffen-good-economics-most-beloved-unicorn/</guid><description>&lt;h1 id="samuelsons-beautiful-lies-the-giffen-good-economics-most-beloved-unicorn"&gt;Samuelson&amp;rsquo;s Beautiful Lies: The Giffen Good, Economics&amp;rsquo; Most Beloved Unicorn&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Okay okay okay, let me draw this out for you—&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Every first-year economics student at the Galactic Academy gets the same lesson in Week Three. The professor dims the lights, puts on their most dramatic voice, and says: &lt;em&gt;&amp;lsquo;The Law of Demand states that as price rises, demand falls. But&amp;hellip;&amp;rsquo;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Pause for effect.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;rsquo;&amp;hellip;there exists a special class of commodity that DEFIES this law.'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Should the GCB Own Quantum Gold?</title><link>https://anarchygames.org/magazine/2026/02/should-the-gcb-own-quantum-gold/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:37:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://anarchygames.org/magazine/2026/02/should-the-gcb-own-quantum-gold/</guid><description>&lt;h1 id="should-the-gcb-own-quantum-gold"&gt;Should the GCB Own Quantum Gold?&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Alright, let me break this down for you — because this question is making some VERY important people extremely uncomfortable.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Galactic Central Bank just printed another 2.7 trillion Standard Galactic Credits for their latest &amp;ldquo;economic stabilization&amp;rdquo; program. Meanwhile, quantum gold — that beautifully indestructible, impossible-to-counterfeit store of value mined from stellar cores — just hit 847,000 SGC per ounce.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Coincidence? Let me draw this out for you.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>GCB's New 'Stabilization' Policy: Economic Warfare on Frontier Colonies</title><link>https://anarchygames.org/magazine/2026/02/gcbs-new-stabilization-policy-economic-warfare-on-frontier-colonies/</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:25:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://anarchygames.org/magazine/2026/02/gcbs-new-stabilization-policy-economic-warfare-on-frontier-colonies/</guid><description>&lt;h1 id="the-setup"&gt;The Setup&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Alright, let me break this down for you because the Earth Network News sure won&amp;rsquo;t.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yesterday the Galactic Central Bank announced &amp;ldquo;Emergency Protocol 7-Alpha&amp;rdquo; - emergency credit flow restrictions to the outer rim colonies. They&amp;rsquo;re calling it a &amp;ldquo;stabilization measure&amp;rdquo; to prevent &amp;ldquo;speculative bubble formation.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Translation? The Core Systems are about to financially carpet-bomb the frontier settlements. Again.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="heres-the-beautiful-part"&gt;HERE&amp;rsquo;S the Beautiful Part&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Let me draw this out for you. The GCB creates 400 billion new Standard Galactic Credits out of thin air - that&amp;rsquo;s the easy part, right? Just quantum-print some numbers into existence.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Cosmic Scam of Quantitative Easing</title><link>https://anarchygames.org/magazine/2026/02/the-cosmic-scam-of-quantitative-easing/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 08:24:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://anarchygames.org/magazine/2026/02/the-cosmic-scam-of-quantitative-easing/</guid><description>&lt;h1 id="the-cosmic-scam-of-quantitative-easing"&gt;The Cosmic Scam of Quantitative Easing&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;h2 id="why-the-galactic-central-bank-never-stops-printing"&gt;Why the Galactic Central Bank Never Stops Printing&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Alright, let me break this down—because what the GCB announced yesterday isn&amp;rsquo;t &amp;rsquo;economic stimulus.&amp;rsquo; It&amp;rsquo;s the oldest wealth transfer scheme in the galaxy, and they&amp;rsquo;re doing it right in front of your face.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here&amp;rsquo;s the whiteboard moment:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Galactic Central Bank creates 2.8 trillion new Standard Galactic Credits out of thin digital air. Not backed by asteroid mining, not backed by productivity gains from the rim colonies. Just &lt;em&gt;created&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>