A sovereign-currency state can never become insolvent in its own currency
Evidence
A state that has its own sovereign currency has a big advantage: it can never become insolvent in its own currency. Similarly, a country that manages to set up a well-managed banking and financial system can finance important projects without having to resort to external financing. — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 365 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: A sovereign currency makes a state incapable of defaulting on its own obligations; A sovereign currency makes state insolvency in that currency impossible. — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 365; Currency issuance is inseparable from national sovereignty (+9 more)
Related
- A sovereign currency makes state insolvency in that currency impossible. (similarity 0.95)
- A sovereign currency makes a state incapable of defaulting on its own obligations (similarity 0.94)
- Currency issuance is inseparable from national sovereignty (similarity 0.92)
- Legal currency ownership does not confer economic monetary sovereignty. (similarity 0.90)
- Monetary sovereignty let Nigeria avoid IMF subordination where franc-zone states could not (similarity 0.88)
- No state with over 100 million people lacks its own national currency (similarity 0.86)
- Monetary sovereignty let Nigeria escape IMF where CEMAC states could not (similarity 0.85)
- Legal monetary sovereignty rarely yields true economic currency sovereignty (similarity 0.84)
- Monetary sovereignty is a precondition for capital accumulation and full employment (similarity 0.81)
- Leaving the CFA only to enter IMF tutelage is no improvement. (similarity 0.81)
- CFA francs are not convertible anywhere in the world outside the French Treasury framework (similarity 0.81)
- Only the modern nation-state can transform private debt into standard payment (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- A sovereign currency makes state insolvency in that currency impossible.
#corroborates(0.90) — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 365 - A sovereign currency makes a state incapable of defaulting on its own obligations
#corroborates(0.85) - Monetary sovereignty let Nigeria avoid IMF subordination where franc-zone states could not
#exemplifies(0.60) - Monetary sovereignty let Nigeria escape IMF where CEMAC states could not
#exemplifies(0.60) — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 240 - Legal monetary sovereignty rarely yields true economic currency sovereignty
#qualifies(0.50) - Legal currency ownership does not confer economic monetary sovereignty.
#qualifies(0.50) — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 364 - CFA francs are not convertible anywhere in the world outside the French Treasury framework
#qualifies(0.40) — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 100 - Currency issuance is inseparable from national sovereignty
#expands(0.30)