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"Stable money" isn't an exact policy. But in U.S. most money is created through real estate mortgages, so stable money could mean credit guidance, and countries such as China have used window guidance to avoid excessive real estate bubbles in order to maintain an industrial base.

Ideally federally backed mortgages would be issued on security of the minimum replacement cost of fixed capital rather than on comparable sales price. If it costs $150,000 in labor and materials to replace a small house and fixtures with a new home of equal utility, but comparable sales price is appraised at $400,000, creating money through federally backed mortgages to sustain the valuation does not really create more money for private sector innovation, it creates asset gains for passive investors which are making money without innovating.

Requiring federally backed mortgages and equity loans to be issued on at least half security of fixed capital whenever the comparable sales price exceeds 200% of the replacement cost would not starve the private sector of money, it would simply encourage investors not to throw away the industrial base economy the innovation economy was built on, or to at least fudge asset valuations higher by writing up the labor replacement cost rather than the intangible benefits so wages tracked productivity gains more closely.




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