(1) Stand back and let everyone go bankrupt in a deflationary collapse. This is the classical solution. You could then reorganize and not have wasted 20 years. This is brief, terrible and politically untenable.
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(2) Print new base money immediately. This will seemingly be inflationary but in reality you are only pulling the money supply along to keep up with the asset inflation that has *already* occurred. Some debt may be destroyed by inflation but it is much less disruptive if it is at low levels.
Bill Gross pushed this very well in March 2009.
http://www.pimco.com/LeftNav/Featured+Ma rket+Commentary/IO/2009/Investment+Outlo ok+Bill+Gross+March+2009+Hairy+Lips+Sink +Ships.htm
Gross said in order to deal with the debt load, we need a “return to nominal GDP growth levels of 5-6%, the majority of which might actually come in the form of higher prices as opposed to increased production. This Faustian bargain would be acceptable if only to stabilize what now appears to be an even more dangerous deflationary debt liquidation.”
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