If money can be printed why do our government borrows money from other country?

[Nightwalker(NW)]

I am still shocked to know that even when money can be printed as much as possible, countries, nations goes after each others to borrow money but yet they can on their own print money instead of having to go borrow and leaving the nation indebted other nations. Just as for instance our country do borrows money from China.

Is that right or they are trying to maintain economic value?
What do you think?

[Altryist]

I am still shocked to know that even when money can be printed as much as possible, countries, nations goes after each others to borrow money but yet they can on their own print money instead of having to go borrow and leaving the nation indebted other nations. Just as for instance our country do borrows money from China.

Is that right or they are trying to maintain economic value?
What do you think?

If the government starts printing money uncontrollably, this will lead to increased inflation. Many governments have gone through this repeatedly, but despite this, this lesson is poorly learned and some governments still consider this the right thing to do to solve their financial problems, and thereby create conditions for increased inflation and economic decline.

[Iranus]

I am still shocked to know that even when money can be printed as much as possible, countries, nations goes after each others to borrow money but yet they can on their own print money instead of having to go borrow and leaving the nation indebted other nations. Just as for instance our country do borrows money from China.

Is that right or they are trying to maintain economic value?
What do you think?

It may seem strange to hear that the government can print money whenever it want but why do country borrow instead of printing it? lol  .. The real reason for this is inflation, trust and the intrinsic value of money. If the government print bags of money just to pay its bill then the money supply in the economy will increase so much that the prices of things will skyrocket, meaning the prices of everyday goods will increase but the value of the money will decrease drastically. This is exactly what happened in Zimbabwe, Venezuela and Greece when they started printing money without control

[Livingleged]

I am still shocked to know that even when money can be printed as much as possible, countries, nations goes after each others to borrow money but yet they can on their own print money instead of having to go borrow and leaving the nation indebted other nations. Just as for instance our country do borrows money from China.

Is that right or they are trying to maintain economic value?
What do you think?

Maybe you should look at what happened to Zimbabwe they printed too much of their currency which lead to a high inflation and devalued the currency that disrupted the countries economy that they are still yet to resolve it is not such a good idea to print so much of fiat currency because its scarcity that maintained it value.

[Akaenyi]

The simple answer is that printing more money can cause inflation and if the central bank continues to print more money it will lead to hyper inflation. If your currency becomes excess in supply it will devalue because a lot of money will be pursuing fewer goods and services in the economy.

When a country that is not productive in terms exports continues to print more money the value of their currency will authomatically be depreciating. That is why they take loans from countries who are very productive and their currency has value, they can use such currencies for international trades. This is why a currency like the US dollar is in high demand because of it's value, it is recognized all over the world.

You cannot expect a country that you're trading with to accept a weak currency because it has no global value. US government can use their dollar currency to trade with another country but Nigeria, cannot use it's naira to trade with the same country. They have to use US dollar from their dollar reserve or borrow it to fund their projects because of the global value of dollar..

[Findingnemo]

You need to know how money works, the value is not just created from no where so if a government prints more money the existing bills will lose it's value so they can't keep printing money or else look at country like Zimbabwe where you need to pay in millions to get a coffee, so if a government wants to solve the povery then they need to create the value for their economy not just by printing money.

[Odusko]

Who told you that countries can print Money uncontrollably, that is not true, currency is bond and for anyone that is ever printed there must corresponding bond that is tied to, governments can't go about just printing unlimited money, it doesn't work that way, if not there will definitely be high uncontrollable inflation where money won't have any value, just like it did in Egypt of the olden day's.

[HONDACD125]

I am still shocked to know that even when money can be printed as much as possible, countries, nations goes after each others to borrow money but yet they can on their own print money instead of having to go borrow and leaving the nation indebted other nations. Just as for instance our country do borrows money from China.

Is that right or they are trying to maintain economic value?
What do you think?

You definitely don't know the consequences of doing that, otherwise, you could think that those who have the right to print as much as they want could think of this before you, but since they know that this isn't going to solve any problems, they don't do it, and those who have a mindset like you with no clear understanding of its outcome or consequences have tried it, and today we can see ho their economy is doing and how much value their currency has in the world.

So, let's understand why this isn't going to work. Do you know why Bitcoin has managed to gain such a high value? It's because it has a limited supply, and because of its limited supply, the more its demand increases, it's value increases with it because there are no more bitcoins to come. Now, if Bitcoin had a supply in billions, would it ever be worth $125k? Never, because there would never be a shortage of coins and anyone could buy as many as they wanted, but it's value wouldn't go much high because there would be enough supply for everyone.

Similarly, if a fiat currency has an infinite supply, it won't have any value, which means that if a currency is currently worth $0.5 per unit while having a total supply of 1 billion units, it will be worth $0.25 if the supply is increased to 2 billion units, so it's not like you print another billion and still have the same value for it.

[HajiBagi]

I am still shocked to know that even when money can be printed as much as possible, countries, nations goes after each others to borrow money but yet they can on their own print money instead of having to go borrow and leaving the nation indebted other nations. Just as for instance our country do borrows money from China.

Is that right or they are trying to maintain economic value?
What do you think?

Printing money does not mean that the government is allow to print money anyhow they like or each country can print money any to make their country better, according what i head and what i know, every country has the limit of printing money in a year and it is approved by the world bank, no any country can print more than what the world bank approved, if every country can print money as they want that means any country will not depend on another country.

If every country can print money on their own the government will steal more than what they are stealing now and they will be more richer than they are now, it is good that no any country can print any amount of money by themselves because it is not going to be funny and many people will do everything to steal the items they are using to print money, seeing government borrowing money from another country is not a bad thing but borrowing too much money that can not be paid even if the government tenure ends is very bad.

[uneng]

Even though money printing is devastating for economies on long run, it still has to be done moderately, so the country doesn't crash at once. We know fiat currencies are a joke, but they aren't those currencies from board games, anyway.

If too much money were printed at once, we would see purchasing power decreasing in much more intense levels. Therefore, countries need to keep their economy relatively stable by having collateral in other stronger currencies, assets and precious metals. When the economy is doing badly, they sell the collateral to maintain the balance.

[Salahmu]

Printing money does not mean that the government is allow to print money anyhow they like or each country can print money any to make their country better, according what i head and what i know, every country has the limit of printing money in a year and it is approved by the world bank, no any country can print more than what the world bank approved, if every country can print money as they want that means any country will not depend on another country.

If every country can print money on their own the government will steal more than what they are stealing now and they will be more richer than they are now, it is good that no any country can print any amount of money by themselves because it is not going to be funny and many people will do everything to steal the items they are using to print money, seeing government borrowing money from another country is not a bad thing but borrowing too much money that can not be paid even if the government tenure ends is very bad.

World  Bank does not tell a country what they are allowed to print in a year or anytime, a country only answer to themselves regarding printing of money and world Bank cannot petition them, is there money to do what they like but however whatever excessive use they did with it, it will definitely reflect back to there economy so any country who decided to print as much as they can in solving loaning problem will suffer the crash of there economy while other countries learn from them regarding the wrong decision of over printing money unnecessarily. Doing that will also give chances to those who eat country money to create an allocation of printing amounts for themselves.

[Alpha Marine]

according what i head and what i know, every country has the limit of printing money in a year and it is approved by the world bank, no any country can print more than what the world bank approved,

You heard wrong because this is not true at all. The World Bank does not limit how much a country can print in a year, and countries certainly do not need approval from world bank before they can print money. As long as it's a sovereign country, it is assumed they can manage the affairs of the state both economically and politically. What the World Bank and other bodies like the IMF do is to advise countries on what to do; they don't necessarily need approval from them before they can print money.

if every country can print money as they want that means any country will not depend on another country.

I guess you didn't bother to read other replies on the post.
When there is no scarcity, a thing loses value. If the government just keeps printing money as much as they like, that means there will be money everywhere, and the value of the money will reduce because when there is too much money, the prices of goods go up. Before you know it, what used to cost $5 would now cost $50, and it will continue increasing the more they print, till you might buy that thing that was $5 for $500.
While this is happening, demand for the currency will drop because nobody wants to have a currency that is crashing and constantly losing value and this will make the value of the currency currency drop even further till it will be worth nothing.

This is why the government makes sure they keep the money printing in check (even though in reality they don't), not because the World Bank didn't approve it.
It can ruin their economy and even if they plan to steal it for themselves, their stolen money will be worth very little in the international market.

Take altcoins for example. There are some altcoins that have so many coins in circulation but with no demand, and that has made the price of those altcoins to tank. Bitcoin wont be worth this much if an unlimited amount of it can be mined at will by miners.
That brings us to the issue of trust. If the government can print money as continuely as they like, people wont have trust for the currency since more will be printed and it will lose value. This will lead to a drop in demand and the impact will be a constant drop in the value of the currency.
There is no scenario where constantly printing money is favourable. 

[Jubilee58]

I am still shocked to know that even when money can be printed as much as possible, countries, nations goes after each others to borrow money but yet they can on their own print money instead of having to go borrow and leaving the nation indebted other nations. Just as for instance our country do borrows money from China.

Is that right or they are trying to maintain economic value?
What do you think?

Printing of fiat currency can be regulated, and this regulation can either add value to the economy or reduce economic value.

It is not a difficult thing for federal government and central bank to print money anyhow they want and settle their dept or use it for what ever they wishes to. But the truth is that, when their is excess money in circulation, it brings about economic devaluation, prices of commodities will highly go up and the fiat currency will become worthless and these are some of the reasons why federal government controls the printing of fiat currency.

Printing of fiat currency should be moderated, while printing of excess money can cause inflation and economic depreciation, it is not also a good idea to print the fiat currency in a low volume, as low printing of fiat currency can equally have some negative effect on the economy, possibly fiat currency scarcity and inability to petronize business owners effectively.

[AmaGold70]

I am still shocked to know that even when money can be printed as much as possible, countries, nations goes after each others to borrow money but yet they can on their own print money instead of having to go borrow and leaving the nation indebted other nations. Just as for instance our country do borrows money from China.

Is that right or they are trying to maintain economic value?
What do you think?

I used to think this way too when I was younger, I used to think that since each countries can print their own money so why not print more than enough and share to everyone especially the poor ones and just make everybody rich but as I got older I understood that it doesn't work that way. And even though the central bank print money they can't print more than required to balance the system and if they print it excess they will only end up devaluing the currency and increasing inflation. The world bank are also in charge of how much money each countries can print per year and they can't print above their limits as their may be consequences for doing that.

[Asuspawer09]

Thats probably the reason as well when they don't print money rapidly because they just can't do that because it is going to be a hyperinflationary price of the local goods etc. plus it is going to destoy the fiat value in the country and destroy its economy overall. Basically there money is going to lose value, and their people are going to suffer in that.

Borrowing is probably one of there way, since borrowing would not really going to hurt there economy compared when they were just printing money, plus having a good relationship with other country is going to be great, it is just like having some kind of credit score, when they see that you could pay off your debt they will surely going to lend you money for more projects in the future, and it's like having a good relationship with other countries so your getting investors with that and building some kind of credibility. The way I see it, it is just a way better option overall, but still, both can cause inflation, but printing is just on high intensity.

[livingfree]

I have also asked that question when I was still young and I get to understand it why each country doesn't just print their new supply of fiat.

That is because it will lead to inflation and the more money in the circulation in the economy, the lower its value will be.

I think to understand it easier, this is how the law of supply and demand can still be applied.

[coupable]

I am still shocked to know that even when money can be printed as much as possible, countries, nations goes after each others to borrow money but yet they can on their own print money instead of having to go borrow and leaving the nation indebted other nations. Just as for instance our country do borrows money from China.

No sir. They can't print money as much as they want because this will directly cause inflation. You know what is the monetary inflation? It is when money lose value. Money is printed according to a cover in gold. We need to store gold as a store of value to print an exact amount of paper money. Once we decide to print money without that cover in gold, the money will have no value.

[ColdLava40]

Who told you that countries can print Money uncontrollably, that is not true, currency is bond and for anyone that is ever printed there must corresponding bond that is tied to, governments can't go about just printing unlimited money, it doesn't work that way, if not there will definitely be high uncontrollable inflation where money won't have any value, just like it did in Egypt of the olden day's.

They can if they so wish but the know the implications that follows. I guess a lot of people have thought about this, why complain so much, borrow money from world banks when you can just press a button and print out endless paper notes.. lol

It's a poison pill and many government are wise enough to avoid it. It will definitely lead to an economic collapse, hyperinflation,currency devaluation.Their investors would loss trust In their currency and oven out to more greener pastures.

its would look like their world simply just ended because even the government at this stage wont be able to do anything.

[peter0425]

Short answer is that printing more money = inflation = devaluation of their currency which no country wants hence they borrow money instead to fund projects that should help the economy.

[wmaurik]

I am still shocked to know that even when money can be printed as much as possible, countries, nations goes after each others to borrow money but yet they can on their own print money instead of having to go borrow and leaving the nation indebted other nations. Just as for instance our country do borrows money from China.

Is that right or they are trying to maintain economic value?
What do you think?

Printing money shouldn't be done haphazardly, as there are regulations in place, so we need to examine these regulations in each country. If money continues to be printed haphazardly, even if the economy isn't experiencing any problems, it will also lead to problems such as a decline in the value of the currency. Furthermore, if the availability of goods frequently needed by many people in the country is still limited, price increases will be very significant, and the country will experience significant complaints from its own citizens.

So, the government shouldn't be careless in creating new money if the need for it isn't great. As for debt, it usually occurs to keep the economy running stably while maintaining the value of the country's currency. Because when there is debt, automatically any work that generates money for the country cannot be stopped arbitrarily by any party.