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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (69487)	5/2/2018 4:43:15 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 354429

Try this instead: I have $5 in my right pocket. I need to purchase $5 of food today. I borrow $5 from X and agree to pay $6 back to X tomorrow. I leave the $5 in my pocket. Tomorrow, by some means (got some work for example), I pay X back $6, leaving the $5 in my right pocket. vs I have $5 in my right pocket. I need to purchase $5 of food today. I use the $5 from my right pocket. Tomorrow, by some means (same as above) I pay my right pocket back $6. Now tell me again why the $1 extra in my right pocket is not real interest, i.e. how it is different than the $1 I paid X in the first example? I'm VERY interesting in how you will explain this one. If I take $5 out of my right pocket, and put it in my left pocket. Later I return it and shove in another dollar saying "here's your interest". I didn't actually have a real return, I just shuffled money around.