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We just can't keep printing more money to pay it off. And that's really the problem. We just keep printing money to solve our problems, but we can't go on much longer,” he cautioned.
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Debt monetization or monetary financing is the practice of a government borrowing money from the central bank to finance public spending instead of selling bonds to private investors or raising taxes. The central banks who buy government debt, are essentially creating new money in the process to do so.
Basic economics also teaches that the money supply shrinks when loans are repaid; [13] [14] however, the money supply will not necessarily decrease depending on the creation of new loans and other effects. Other than loans, investment activities of commercial banks and the Federal Reserve also increase and decrease the money supply. [15]
Money printing may refer to: Money creation to increase the money supply; Debt monetization, financing the government by borrowing from the central bank, in effect creating new money; Security printing as applied to banknotes ("paper money") Quantitative easing, a type of monetary policy meant to lower interest rates
November 11, 2022 at 6:00 AM
During the Mongol Yuan dynasty, the government spent a great deal of money fighting costly wars, and reacted by printing more money, leading to inflation. [36] Fearing the inflation that plagued the Yuan dynasty, the Ming dynasty initially rejected the use of paper money, and reverted to using copper coins.