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re: What is the economic impact of dropping bags of cash?

Posted on 11/16/14 at 9:26 pm to
Posted by HailHailtoMichigan!
Mission Viejo, CA
Member since Mar 2012
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Posted on 11/16/14 at 9:26 pm to
If the money is printed, it would have a huge economic boom effect. If it was simply taken by others first, it would have no economic effect.

Printing money and giving it to consumers is a net gain for wealth creation. Taking money and giving it to consumers is a net 0 at best.
Posted by Jbird
In Bidenville with EthanL
Member since Oct 2012
73517 posts
Posted on 11/16/14 at 9:28 pm to
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Printing money and giving it to consumers is a net gain for wealth creation.
How many dollars are in circulation? What happens if we multiply it by a factor of say ten?
Posted by I B Freeman
Member since Oct 2009
27843 posts
Posted on 11/16/14 at 9:59 pm to
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If the money is printed, it would have a huge economic boom effect


wrong

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Printing money and giving it to consumers is a net gain for wealth creation


Wrong again--printing money is a net gain of money and money is not wealth. Labor and capital and their products are wealth. Money is simply how we keep score.

Printing money is always inflationary relative to the previous money supply.

Dropping bags of cash in neighborhoods--if those bags were taken from the same economy--at best is a break even deal.

Dropping bags of newly printed money in an economy will drive up prices but over the long run will have no real, inflation adjusted impact on the economy.
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