Khagesh
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@sayareakd,
That promise can also be fulfilled by simply keeping the windfall in limbo - in reserves and surplus, till a person comes forward, in compliance with laws, to claim it. Since at this late juncture, having given ample time there would be nearly no legal holder of that cash. And without dipping into the General Reserves now the Govt. can have new money issued by RBI, because it is safe in the knowledge that no new legal claimant will be coming forward.
Admitted this is not fool proof, but I think it is a distinctly workable idea.
Only thing now remains to be seen is if Modi will use it all in wasteful expeditures like imports or if he will use it for the people of this country and seems like finally he has made the right choice. At least to the degree of the money that he will have issued as extra for issuing G-Sec.
RBI will have G-Sec on Asset side with Liabilities side populated by new money. Old demonetized money remaining in the Reserves (trishanku ka swarg).
Demonetisation - promise to pay - is a limitation only for RBI which cannot issue new currency till it gets some asset side increase.
But GoI can issue as much asset as it wishes to. GoI never made any promises to pay to the bearer.
However in the normal course GoI too cannot issue unlimited amounts of G-Sec because they then suck out even good money meant for private sector enterprises, dampening production. Then when it decides to do pump priming with extra debt then it will put more currency into the system fueling inflation for already lower volumes of production. AKA The Perfect Storm.
But if GoI and RBI and Courts are reasonably sure that the bad currency is not going to bother the system then all of them will agree that new G-Sec can be issued and new money can be pumped in.
At least this is how I see it.
That promise can also be fulfilled by simply keeping the windfall in limbo - in reserves and surplus, till a person comes forward, in compliance with laws, to claim it. Since at this late juncture, having given ample time there would be nearly no legal holder of that cash. And without dipping into the General Reserves now the Govt. can have new money issued by RBI, because it is safe in the knowledge that no new legal claimant will be coming forward.
Admitted this is not fool proof, but I think it is a distinctly workable idea.
Only thing now remains to be seen is if Modi will use it all in wasteful expeditures like imports or if he will use it for the people of this country and seems like finally he has made the right choice. At least to the degree of the money that he will have issued as extra for issuing G-Sec.
RBI will have G-Sec on Asset side with Liabilities side populated by new money. Old demonetized money remaining in the Reserves (trishanku ka swarg).
Demonetisation - promise to pay - is a limitation only for RBI which cannot issue new currency till it gets some asset side increase.
But GoI can issue as much asset as it wishes to. GoI never made any promises to pay to the bearer.
However in the normal course GoI too cannot issue unlimited amounts of G-Sec because they then suck out even good money meant for private sector enterprises, dampening production. Then when it decides to do pump priming with extra debt then it will put more currency into the system fueling inflation for already lower volumes of production. AKA The Perfect Storm.
But if GoI and RBI and Courts are reasonably sure that the bad currency is not going to bother the system then all of them will agree that new G-Sec can be issued and new money can be pumped in.
At least this is how I see it.
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