Why not just print dollars?

[yndye]

Because the more dollars you print, the lesser its value will be. It's like the law of supply and demand when we have so much supply of something, its value will be lesser whereas when a supply is lesser and demand is higher then the price would surge up. More printing of dollars means more money and the result would be inflation.

[Rostadom]

That will probably result in inflation since you print more money and add up on the current money supply. Like how the government in Zimbabwe printed more money and made their currency practically worthless. Same applies to any fiat and bitcoin, as it is, is not affected.

Yup, in Zimbabwe when you want to buy a bread. You have to pay more than 1 Billion of Dollar Zimbabwe to buy one bread. Which is really ridiculous to see when you have lot of money (OP said to print dollars). It will result in inflation and money value of that country will be decreased.

The situation in Zimbabwe isn't the same when you print a couple of hundred dollars nonstop. In Zimbabwe, they printed out high denominations of money and that has made their currency go crazy. They printed papers that have a denomination of a billion, and that made their currency go hyperinflated. If you print out dollars nonstop, the value of it will go down but not as much when you print out billions of worth of it in just a short period of time like what happened in Zimbabwe.

Because the more dollars you print, the lesser its value will be. It's like the law of supply and demand when we have so much supply of something, its value will be lesser whereas when a supply is lesser and demand is higher then the price would surge up. More printing of dollars means more money and the result would be inflation.

That is true, but sadly, that's actually what is happening. Countries that have debts are printing their currencies nonstop to pay for it.

[Umbrella Holdings]

It is not economically feasible. Excess of the dollar is increasing inflation. The rise in inflation is also a stagflation.

This situation is very bad.

[anhhung409]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpW_KMHlAmo

Why borrow dollars and then pay back by printing them?

Why take the long way around?

The dollar we have defined is a common currency for us to use it to buy or trade anything. We create it and set its value to a certain level. Its value may increase or decrease depending on the development of the country that created it. It always has certain limits to balance the market. Every year, the government prints out a lot of cash to make up for lost or lost money. That balances the market and makes the country richer

[28days_ever]

If every person could just print money to himself, then there would not be poor people in the world, but this would depreciate all the currencies and chaos would come about in the world.

[Janation]

If every person could just print money to himself, then there would not be poor people in the world, but this would depreciate all the currencies and chaos would come about in the world.

We are talking about dollars, and dollars is a primary currency of one's country. Creating a chaos in the world seems exaggerated because if that happens, it will just be a problem of the country and not the world.
They can reflect to these problem and in the future improve or develop their way of circulating and printing money. But we all know how governments work, they will not let their country fall down just like that.

[BTCbengi]

the good point of bitcoin ... is that you can print paper money if you want : https://www.bitaddress.org


and, it's real value !  



Bitcoin is a perfect thing.





Plan B.

You are wrong when you say Bitcoin is a real value while it is a virtual value. If it is material, then we can print it and use it like cash. You can skip that intermediate step, which is to switch from Bitcoin to cash, which has a transaction fee. But that would not be far off because Bitcoin is virtual

[mobilestrike]

the good point of bitcoin ... is that you can print paper money if you want : https://www.bitaddress.org


and, it's real value !  



Bitcoin is a perfect thing.





Plan B.

You are wrong when you say Bitcoin is a real value while it is a virtual value. If it is material, then we can print it and use it like cash. You can skip that intermediate step, which is to switch from Bitcoin to cash, which has a transaction fee. But that would not be far off because Bitcoin is virtual

Money is something that we can use to clear our payments and we can sue it for buying and selling purpose. I don’t think so there is any need of printing bitcoins to use them as sound money. We should give equal importance to both paper money and digital currency.

[zoelhack]

What has the bigger value? Something that's common everywhere or something rare found in a very few places? I think you see where I'm going with this. Also, that's how inflation works, you just print out money and it becomes worthless.

I agree with your thinking, because it's all too common where it happens and a lot is rarely found in that very little place, printing the new money will make, all will not have exchange rate.

[eleah24]

Why not just print dollars? It should not be done because if people would just print dollars, every would just print it and there would be no empowerment. Nobody will be rich and nobody will be poor if we would all just print dollars. People would be lazy and not work because they don't have to work hard for money because they would just print dollars. And it would be a chaos if that happened.

[n0ne]

Printing dollars without any backing is like printing papers. This makes the currency go valueless and every country has got its own system for printing currencies. In several countries gold will be placed as an reserve and based on the value of gold holding currency will be printed.

[Xenophoto]

Printing dollars without any backing is like printing papers. This makes the currency go valueless and every country has got its own system for printing currencies. In several countries gold will be placed as an reserve and based on the value of gold holding currency will be printed.

Not in this century, though. After the Nixon Shock, fiat is not backed by any commodity at all. Basically we are just printing papers and the only thing that gives it a value is our belief that it does have a value. At the end of the day, paper money is just paper and it's value isn't even based on a fair supply and demand law. They are just printing it nonstop and our money gives us less and less purchasing power.

[Grapt1961]

the more income is printed, the significantly less they are really worth. You can not just print cash. Their benefit need to be considerably less than the confirmed

[Celsiuss]

While it is a good point, you simply cannot print off your debt. Printing a lot of money creates inflation, and if there's one thing you don't want as a country, it is inflation. This has happened to many countries before. Huge debt, print money, huge inflation problem. You really don't want this, really.

[Aganythe]

How do you feel that pounds are printed. If you know that secret you will turn out to be a wealthy gentlemen. So if you know how just do it bucks are simple to fake so that would not be difficult.

[Mobshady24]

a government cant just print money as long as they want, it is still subject to regulations since printing a lot of money can cause inflation to the society, the value of the excessive printed money will go down to the point it has no value just like what happen during the japanese invation in the philippines during world war.

[Babylon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpW_KMHlAmo

Why borrow dollars and then pay back by printing them?

Why take the long way around?

It does not mean we can do it right away. The paper is expensive, used for printing. We can not be fake because we can be jailed or charged. I also thought that before, when I was a kid, why would not they just print money? But when I grew up? I understand more about everything. It's hard to make money, because it's expensive to make money  .

[Pejoh Asu]

If money is printed freely then it can be worthwhile because it will make the value of money will drop and no price, the policy certainly takes into account many things.

[jaysabi]

Why not just print dollars? It should not be done because if people would just print dollars, every would just print it and there would be no empowerment. Nobody will be rich and nobody will be poor if we would all just print dollars. People would be lazy and not work because they don't have to work hard for money because they would just print dollars. And it would be a chaos if that happened.

We "print" dollars all the time, but it's mostly digital creation and is done by the banking system, not ncecessarily the Fed. Fractional reserve banking allows banks to loan 90% of deposits out, and that's how most of the new dollars in the economy are created. As long as the loaned money is being used to create more products and services in the economy that the market as a whole desires, everything is fine, as the loans (which are just a representation of value) are paid back with the new value that has been created. Essentially, value creation has to match dollar creation, otherwise you get a large amount of inflation whereby each dollar represents less value.

[Francer]

The OP is not talking about printing bucks privately and illegally. He's speaking about how the treasury is offering their bonds to the central lender, and as a result producing forex into existence.I believe the point is to deceive individuals about this reality. The truth that they are inflating the currency offer. They don't want people realising.