The ballooning money supply may be the key to unlocking inflation in the U.S.

Re:The ballooning money supply may be the key to unlocking i... by nkurz on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @05:41PM (#24770639)

> it's interesting to see the two large threads here. One of them is about whether the Fed is printing money. The other one is about what inflation is, or how it ought to be measured.

Observant, but you are most likely seeing the result of 'dang' changing the URL from the article about printing money to the one about how to measure inflation! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24770185

Was: "22% of all US Dollars were created in 2020" https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/j6ud5u/22_of_all_u...

Now: "The ballooning money supply may be the key to unlocking inflation in the U.S." https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/05/the-ballooning-money-supply-...

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Re:The ballooning money supply may be the key to unlocking i... by BoiledCabbage on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @11:48PM (#24772939)

I think you completely missed the point.

OP's post isn't about that fact that two different topics are being discussed. OPs point is that for neither of this two topics that are critical to economic theory, people don't even seem to know or agreed on the definition of either. How in the world can people discuss (let alone judge or shape) policy if we can't even agree on what basic concepts even mean.

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