Seriously: why can't we just print more money to get out of the country's debt?

Question

America's the land that I love;)

Answer 1

Everyone is so mean! You aren't stupid sweets. Don't listen to them. Our paper money actually has no value. What it represents does. It represents the actual wealth of the country. Our commodities e.g. oil, corn, soy, wheat, technology etc is how we measure our wealth or, in your questions case, the value of a dollar compared to other currencies. A better way to solve our problem would be to unify all of the worlds' currencies into a universal currency. Once every country begins to work together, we will have the total value of the planet to back our universal "dollar." This will not happen in our lifetime.

Answer 2

Printing more money will only enhance the problem more. The government doesn't have enough money to back the bills out there now. At any time they can say those paper bills are worthless.



What we need are some honest government officials.

Answer 3

Haha! Nice try!



Germany and Zimbabwe have tried this only to have a loaf of bread cost $1,400 dollars and have people building shelters with piles of banknotes. Money is a measurement unit of wealth, you need wealth to back up money.



Bills aren't worth anything, they are really I.O.Us from the monarchy or government =]



But hey, its more than the powers that be have thought of doing ;]

Answer 4

OMG why can't people take a joke these days? Those are some pretty harsh answers. Yes, everyone knows that printing money like mad = inflation, but it sounds like a really fun idea to me. I got dibs on rolling around naked in all the money.

Answer 5

Inflation is the issue here. Too much money=low value for the dollar. I think it may be a better idea for the gov't to do savings bonds like they did back in the day, but then again, I am no economist. Maybe that wouldn't work either.

Answer 6

if the amount of money increases the cost for items will also increase. it will make you look richer but your not really coz everything has gone up. they are trying to increase the money people are spending by printing more money and making them look richer so they spend spend spend as the credit crunch is making everyone save.

and if you have too much money in the country hyperinflation would be crazy

"there was a basket full of cash and someone only took the basket coz it was worth more"

Answer 7

because of the fact then funds will substitute into valueless. there is completely a undeniable quantity of money and no count what share $a hundred charges are printed, the quantity of funds a usa has does not substitute.

Answer 8

That's exactly what they're doing. Where do you suppose that $700 billion came from? Ever since we went off the gold standard, the only thing that determines the value of our money is what our government says it's worth, or what others are willing to pay for it.







For those who seem to believe otherwise, US money hasn't been based on the value of gold for over 30 years.

Answer 9

Germany? Inflation? Remember?

Answer 10

If you print more money with nothing to back it up, It is just paper. If you print to much money , It creates inflation and your money is worth less and diminishes your buying power.

Answer 11

BECAUSE- we will end up like germany in world War two! They printed out mad money and like a loaf of bread was a million bucks. NO LIE!!



Thank you Mr. Gruberman my World Studies teacher from last year!! I remember something you talked to us about :)

Answer 12

That is what Zimbabwe is doing....I would love to see America print a 20 million dollar bill so you can buy a loaf of bread

Answer 13

Germany did it too.Before and during the ww2.

People had to take a wheel barrow full of money just to buy a loaf of bread.

Buy a wheel barrow now,,,lol.

Answer 14

Because all the money you have is backed up with gold. Printing more money would make the money worth less.

Answer 15

gold is th real money. the FRB is only supposed to print more money if our gold is increased or goes up in value.

Answer 16

I asked that to my mom once and she said that money would loose it's value if there was too much made. Picture this: if they made a lot of iPods and everyone in America had like 5 iPods then no one would care if the other person had a iPod, it would be meaningless :)

Answer 17

theres a certiain amount of money burnt and made every year. If that goes off then an inflmation would be expected it would blow the whole economy off.

Americas the land evereyone hates ;)

Answer 18

Isn't that what the Governments doing now with all the bailouts? The money is gotta come from somewhere and I don't have any! Do You?

Answer 19

now I know that you was going to sleep in the school.

to make it very simple and easy fo understand, imagine that you have a million $ and its not enough to buy you chocolate bar...z

Answer 20

that will reduce the value of the dollar and cause horrible inflation

Answer 21

Printing money like mad = runaway inflation.

Answer 22

More dollars equals less value per dollar.

Answer 23

yeah if you want so much inflation a stick of gum costs $300

Answer 24

No that will cause more inflation and the value of our dollar will decrease

Answer 25

The govn't does do this sometimes. That's why the dollar becomes worth less and less.

Answer 26

I print my own money.

Answer 27

because it really doesnt change it

the only reason it has value is because its backed by gold

if you were to print more money the value of it would go down, so the price of everything would go up

so everything would cost the same really

Answer 28

I am not well educated in that area, so I have no idea. Sound like a plan to me

Answer 29

I have some money for you...you just have to come and get it.

Answer 30

well, first of all, why don't we just kill all the stupid people in the world, like you, and the world would be much better off. Seriously, if the world was as stupid as you then George Bush would still be president. God, why did you even ask this question. You have to be retarded.

Answer 31

It drops the value of the dollar..

Answer 32

I'm trying, but I need a faster printer in my basement.

Answer 33

government cant just print money...country's wealth depends on how much gold they have..

Answer 34

Because, the money is based off gold, and you can't just MAKE gold, now can you?

Answer 35

i always wondered this too.

thanks for asking.. it's like, don't we have enough paper to keep making more? or is the ink cartridge low?

Answer 36

right on

Answer 37

its my money and i want it now!



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Answer 38

If only it was that easy...

Answer 39

lmfao.. seriously..yeah (^^,)

Answer 40

lol

Answer 41

please stay in school

Answer 42

cuz it's illegal