printing money

[Dan Goncharoff]

Maybe it's because, in the digital age, "printing money" doesn't actual
involve printing money.
DanG

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Paul Frank <paulfrank at post.harvard.edu>wrote:

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> 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?
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> Paul
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