printing money

[Dan Goncharoff]

The German hyperinflation of the 1920s was due to printing money.

Modern day Treasury operations may or may not involve running a printing
press when trying to increase liquidity. It depends how individual actors in
the economy respond to the easing.

DanG

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Paul Frank <paulfrank at post.harvard.edu>wrote:

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> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com>
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> > Maybe it's because, in the digital age, "printing money" doesn't actual
> > involve printing money.
> > DanG
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> I reckon the reason lies elsewhere. We don't dial phone numbers
> anymore either, but many of us still say it. And when we rewind a film
> we're not actually rewinding anymore. And did governments really
> _print_ more money whenever they printed money? Wasn't the usual
> practice to print bonds or IOUs?
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> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com>
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> > Maybe it's because, in the digital age, "printing money" doesn't actual
> > involve printing money.
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> > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Paul Frank <paulfrank at post.harvard.edu
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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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