r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 8h ago

Meme needing explanation Petah?

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u/PuzzleheadedFee6943 7h ago

why not just start printing money then?!

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u/Classy_Maggot 7h ago

Germany tried that once. There's a reason the Weimar Republic lasted for about a decade

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u/CreBanana0 7h ago

No seriously. Why tf would you get hyperinflation if you are countering deflation?

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u/BurningTrashBarge 7h ago

You need the other nations that you trade with to not freak out when you magically just generate a whole bunch of new value.

It’s a lot easier to do when you have a gun to the world’s head. So it does and will happen in convoluted ways. But why it doesn’t happen anywhere else like Japan.

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u/layerone 5h ago

Well put, the world bares the pressure of the US Federal Reserve printing money. The US 40T debt it carried by the world.

This is because the US Dollar has been the reserve currency of the world.

People are so unaware of how good the USA had it before Orange started ruined all our socioeconomic ties around the world. He's vastly accelerated USD not being the world reserve currency anymore. US Citizen have no clue how much that will hurt us, it's unrecoverable too. Once USD loses that status, it will never get back.

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u/BurningTrashBarge 5h ago

Covid really underlined this for me. When things just kept ticking after everything went down cause they printed a bunch of money. The entire game is rigged in favour of keeping that established power structure in place.

If it ever stops being the reserve currency that’s it for the US empire. It’s a wonder everyone let the US have its way for so long, at the same time insane that the US is just ignorantly throwing it away now.

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u/rbrgr83 1h ago

He's vastly accelerated USD not being the world reserve currency anymore.

This is the intent. Crash our economy, buy up big swatches of wreckage for dirt cheap, and finally push your own crypto for further grift on the desperate.

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u/Little_Fox_9 1h ago

Why

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u/fishyexe 31m ago

Greed. We used to think greedy people were trash, now people idolize them.

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u/marketingguy420 3h ago

But we're not really printing money. We're borrowing money. Usually from ourselves. 80% of the debt is owned by US investors.

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u/MasterGrok 2h ago

Nonsense. When the fed does quantitative easing without a sufficient amount of tightening a shit ton of money is put into circulation that is created out of thin air. This absolutely happened over the last decade.

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u/marketingguy420 1h ago

It is put on a balance sheet as debt. The debt is purchased. At no point is money being created freely. The "reserves" created for banks to stabilize aren't circulated.

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u/Little_Fox_9 1h ago

How does that work? How can a country be indebted to itself?

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u/marketingguy420 1h ago

Institutional investors, banks, and regular people just buy treasuries.