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Re:Why inflation is not a threat by incrudible on Sunday March 14, 2021 @12:02PM (#26456404)
> The economic behaviour of the recipients of the newly created money is also significant. If consumers are the recipients then, all else being equal, the prices of the goods and services that consumers buy may be expected to rise.

Furthermore, even when consumers are the recipients, inflation is not necessarily to be expected when that money is replacing lost income. In that case, spending (and thus demand) remains the same. Inflation would not occur unless there was a simultaneous drop in supply.

People pointing at Venezuela or Zimbabwe as cautionary tales of money printing often ignore the decades of economic mismanagement that preceded the money printing.

Re:Why inflation is not a threat by tastyfreeze on Sunday March 14, 2021 @03:46PM (#26458290)
Are you implying that the US and the UK havent had decades of economic mismanagement? Ooh boy, that is rich.
Re:Why inflation is not a threat by incrudible on Sunday March 14, 2021 @04:16PM (#26458636)
> Ooh boy, that is rich.

Noblesse oblige.