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It's only orderly so far because of a) food supply has not been affected yet*, and b) the gov issued unprecedented bailouts and put money in the hands of many people/businesses. However, we can't just keep printing money forever, if this goes on another 6 months it could be a whole different ball game.


The US actually can keep printing money for a long, long time, and they've been doing this for quite a while too:

https://jeremiahjosey.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/money-supp...

Of course inflation will eventually eat away at its value, but at the moment we have the opposite problem, namely a deflationary spiral, because people aren't buying.


Yeah nobody understands that we can print money. It’s the easiest solution and every other country is doing it already.


Hope you’re saving now for your $10m one bedroom condo and your child’s $5m state university education.


No inflation arises from injecting more money in the system if the amount injected is offsetting a reduction in economic activity. As activity increases, you take money out of the system (Raise rates)


nostromo's comment may sound like a joke but the reason why those two things in particular are inflated is the fact that the printed money is only available as a mortgage or student loan. Nobody is buying consumer goods with the printed money and therefore we don't get to see inflation (which by definition only looks at consumer spending). We might get to see "real" inflation if that printed money is used to pay for unemployment benefits or to pay salaries.


This misses the point that every country is printing money right now and yes some of that money is going directly to unemployment benefits and to paying worker salaries. At least in the USA 🇺🇸 it has...




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