YOU CAN'T PRINT MONEY....
April 06, 2011
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QE1 and QE2 is printing money.....
as opposed to legitimate borrowing money against an asset or the reasonable expectation of future production to pay the money back. (which by the way is most Fools definition of printing, but since I am a lawyer and probably one of the our nation's foremost experts on the legal and moral nature of money, I must clarify the difference as they are HUGE)
"Printing" via fraudulent lending(no reasonable expectation to pay it back) or outright counterfeiting(QE1 and QE2) is legally wrong and morally reprehensible. It is essentially stealing the production/life of another who accepts your money...whether by force or unknowingly.
Creating money actually backed by production is the definition of money and creating money through a legitimate loan, although has risks attached, is still within legal bounds.
Every nation for the past 5000 years that has attempted to print money has thrusted its nation into massive convulsions.....when the Roman Empire tried to mix metals with their gold and silver coins, once the people found out, the Empire collapsed.
The same thing happened to the Spaniards, Germans, and Argentinians and many more......
At some point, people will eventually reject the printed money in exchange for the production/life.....and if you need that production, your only choice left is to use force......as love(the third method to generate production) generally is out the window at that point.
Welcome to Alstrynomics....the analysis of deficit based economies with no reasonable expectation to ever pay it back....otherwise known as Zombulation once most figure it out.