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Or does the government already do this? If so, can anyone explain like I'm five?

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[–] sonori@beehaw.org 4 points 9 months ago

It’s worth noting that a solid link between money printing and inflation has to my knowledge never been demonstrated outside of hyperinflation scenarios. The chief problem being that there are far to many inputs to inflation and deflation to solidly say how much influence some of the smaller ones like total money supply have.