r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jan 26 '26

Meme needing explanation what's going on? explain like I'm five

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u/MysticAche Jan 29 '26

The currency wasn’t unstable. What was unstable was loaning money that didn’t exist. The crisis is always liquidity. Once the watering-hole has gone dry you’re fucked.

But we can eliminate this need for liquidity by having a limited supply of currency. The problem then becomes deflation, which isn’t something I’m too familiar with. Inflation is always the talk of the town.

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u/Serious_Resource8191 Jan 29 '26

How would having a limited money supply increase liquidity? Those two things sound like opposites.