If the economy is so bad......?

Question

How come Bush doesn't simply keep printing dollars until we have a lot of them, seems like an easy solution!

Answer 1

On the surface that might seem like a good idea put in our current type of monetary system that causes a problem called inflation. In inflation the there's more money than there are goods and services for them to be worth so prices rise dramatically and in response to the expansion of the money supply, until money itself becomes worthless.

Answer 2

Let see it would cause inflation and a major drop in the value of  the American dollar. Kind of like Zimbabwe, which will turn into Hyperinflation. Now Zimbabwe has Billion dollar notes. But  Bush would Do Something like that!!

Answer 3

Are you 12? or trying to be sarcastic?

Answer 4

That causes INFLATION and is exactly what Bush has been doing to fund the war.

Inflation essentially decreases the value of the dollar in comparative terms against all other currencies.

And printing money essentially is an additional tax on the population.

Basically the money in your hand or account or contracted to you in your wage now buys less goods and services because Bush has been printing money to bomb families overseas.

This is a major reason for the value of gold going up over the last few years because people in the know have been moving their savings out of US currency and into solid investments such as gold, silver and oil.

Think 1924 Germany.

Take a look at the link in my source info and you will see a picture of a woman burning money in Germany because the value of the money was less than the cost of firewood, this was entirely because of printing excess cash to fund war.

If money ceased to be a limited resource it would merely be paper.

Answer 5

..omg

Answer 6

That is exactly what the federal reserve bank is doing. They are printing money out of thin air to bail out their buddies on wall street. This in turn is lowering the value of the dollar.  

Answer 7

Maybe we should write out our own currency. I'm already paying around 10 cents for a piece of paper. Draw a picture of yourself on it, make the amount as large as you want, we'll all have fun...... get real!

Answer 8

Bush probably doesn't simply keep printing dollars until we have a lot of them because he just want to use the people.

Answer 9

Well PRESIDENT Bush know that that will not help the economy then prices will just go up McDonalds will start having the 5 Dollar Menu in stead of the dollar one, so it is pointless

Answer 10

The economy is so bad becuase people like you don't know anything about how the economy works

Answer 11

Because it will just cause inflation. (That's when the price of everything goes up because the value of the dollar goes down, dear)

Also it costs money to make money.

Answer 12

i agree with the second answer. haha