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A Lady's Reflections's avatar

What happens if the central banks stop printing money? Will the economy be better off automatically?

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Putting an end to money printing isn't - in itself - enough to make the economy better, especially not immediately. It will take a couple of months, but prices will eventually stop rising, plateau, and then begin to fall, and the economy will improve. It is counseled that stoping monetary expansion be accompanied with [government] spending, regulatory and tax cuts

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A Lady's Reflections's avatar

But what about first world countries, their central also print more money no? Or is that more regulated than that of Nigeria.

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Pretty much all the central banks on earth print money, and that's why prices always trend upwards.However, some central banks do something called "inflation targeting" - where they fix some arbitrary percentage of inflation that they [wrongly] assume is necessary. For some reason, they agree that 2%-3% is the acceptable level. I disagree. All inflation is bad

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A Lady's Reflections's avatar

It all makes sense now.

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Econ Bro's avatar

Thank you. You're too kind

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You're welcome

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