money printing
Central bank expansion
Money printing is the creation of new currency by a central bank, literally or electronically.
The term often carries critical connotations, implying reckless expansion of the money supply that risks inflation: The government's money printing will devalue our savings.
Economists debate when monetary expansion constitutes genuine money printing versus legitimate policy tools like quantitative easing.
- quantitative easingAsset purchases to boost economy
- inflationSustained price level increase
- Federal ReserveUS central banking system
- currencyMedium of exchange
- devaluationLowering of currency worth
stimulus · debt · national debt · central bank · fiat · fiat currency · dollar · reserve currency · hyperinflation · currency crisis · bonds · treasury · bailout · too big to fail · liquidity · Weimar · Zimbabwe · greenbacks
- monetary policyinflation, central banking, deflation, central bank, interest rates
- money systemsbank reserves, central bank, fiat currency, banknotes, M2
- paper moneybanknote, banknotes, bank note, bank notes, dollar bill
- inflationinflation, CPI, price hikes, hyperinflation, cost-push inflation
- treasuryUS Treasury, Treasury Department, treasury bonds, Exchequer, state treasury
- Austrian economicsHayek, human action, spontaneous order, malinvestment, marginalism
money printingtight money
Restricted credit supply
fiscal restraint · austerity · sound money · tapering · fiscal conservatism
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