printing money

[Paul Frank]

Whatever happened to the easy-to-understand term "printing money"?
I've lost count of the number of times I heard someone on an NPR
station over the past couple of weeks speak of "quantitative easing"
to refer to the government's plans to, yes, print money. And the thing
is, they don't explain that that's all it essentially means. Are
average Americans really that familiar with financial jargon?

Paul

Paul Frank
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