Legal Process of Printing USDs

Quote from Avid_Consumer:

you said doubling cash would be accompanied by doubling prices. what difference do you have in mind wrt to money supply vs cash?

i was using them interchangeably for the purposes of this conv, though of course they're definitely not the same thing. the point i was getting in your stock analogy was that splitting is preferable to dilution, (in the context of ever declining purchasing power)

well most obviously, splitting doesn't screw existing shareholders while dilution does. I guess money supply does have a splitting analogy though. When currencies get devalued (pesos, etc) to the point where a minimum multiple is 100, it goes thru a 'reverse split', a la 100:1 to get it back to countable denominations of value.
 
Quote from Compulsive:

You always want a country to have less money to go around then to have to much money - then it becomes worthless

OTOH, if you don't have any money going around, you get relatively little investment or progress - just stagnancy.
 
Quote from Compulsive:

true

whats so disappointing is that the latest round of free money was wasted on military action, crude oil, and on housing. (err consumer goods in disguise.. no capital investment)

Could you imagine if it was spent on solar, nuclear, and battery research?

we'd have free unlimited aggregate supply by now with falling prices.
 
what would also be cool for starters, is for we the taxpayers not to pay interest on the money our own government creates.

the national debt accrues 250 Million dollars interest an hour or something like that (and compounding)... yet it's our own currency, created by our own government
 
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