OK let me try to steelman your argument.
Company a has liabilities due soon and must be financed. It usually does so by taking loans from a bank which is repaid by the proceeds from the final good they produce.
There's a extrinsic shock that suddenly made company b unable to repay their loan to the same bank.
Because of this the bank is unable to finance company a at the same rate.
In a elastic money supply a government can increase the ms to increase the amount of currency units to reduce the cost of capital and stabilize prices so that company a can finish their production and the damages of company b failing is minimized.
If you want to avoid a gov as money supply creator a bank could also just increase their own currency units
Essentially you moved the risks of failure out of bank a into the currency in both cases.
Sound right?
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That's certainly a thing that could happen.
not sure what you mean "risks of failure out of bank A into the currency in both cases"
I don't think it quite addresses the point that we're talking about, the entire system and how it's going to avoid liquidity shocks, demand shortages and deflationary contractions on a hard money.
but for the sake of the discussion we can go with this ๐