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Re:Fed Prints Another $205B This Week, M2 Growing at Fastest... by ashtonkem on Friday April 24, 2020 @11:44AM (#22969216)
The analogy has always been strained, since national debt just doesn’t work like personal debt.

Also, when you can borrow at sub-inflation rates, there’s rarely an incentive to stop.

Re:Fed Prints Another $205B This Week, M2 Growing at Fastest... by RobertoG on Friday April 24, 2020 @11:59AM (#22969436)
It's the Bank of Japan who decide the borrowing rates, so, not problem in that regard.
Re:Fed Prints Another $205B This Week, M2 Growing at Fastest... by eslaught on Friday April 24, 2020 @12:18PM (#22969723)
Ok, but they don't control inflation. At some point, I think it's obvious that printing money becomes counterproductive. But where exactly is that line?
Re:Fed Prints Another $205B This Week, M2 Growing at Fastest... by RobertoG on Friday April 24, 2020 @12:56PM (#22970273)
The Bank of Japan, can actually control inflation, because, as we have determined, they control the interest rate. Also, if necessary, the government could raise taxes and run a surplus to diminish inflationary pressures.

But those are moot points, because the problem of Japan for the last 20 years has been deflation, not inflation. Despise that, as you can see in the comments here, there are people that still predict inflation in the future.

Re:Fed Prints Another $205B This Week, M2 Growing at Fastest... by ashtonkem on Friday April 24, 2020 @12:34PM (#22969934)
They don’t control inflation. But all of the warnings about hyperinflation being “right around the corner” have remained hilariously false. So who knows?
Re:Fed Prints Another $205B This Week, M2 Growing at Fastest... by WanderPanda on Friday April 24, 2020 @05:44PM (#22973235)
They only control their inefficiency around an increasing trajectory