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Board Economics
Re: Why not just print dollars?
by
usorin
on 24/11/2017, 21:31:59 UTC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpW_KMHlAmo

Why borrow dollars and then pay back by printing them?

Why take the long way around?
Usually to print money, you must have some assets of value that are reflected in the amount of money that you want to print, for example for 1 mil dollar the government must have some gold reserves.