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   "text": "Under the quantity theory of money, minting twice as much currency halves its price and burning half of the existing currency doubles it, which is the mechanism by which a supply rule can theoretically stabilize price.",
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   "text": "The quantity theory calculations behind minting and burning hold only in the ideal case; in practice the success of a stabilization scheme depends on how the money is actually printed, distributed or burned.",
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   "text": "Selling currency into a reserve when price is above the peg and buying it back with the reserve when price is below the peg yields an arbitrage profit, so a reserve can fund its own defense of the peg.",
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   "text": "Defining the energy of money as the product of economic momentum and velocity gives a basis for discussing economic frictions and for distinguishing genuine from artificial network energy, which is what guards against hot money instability.",
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