You printed more money. More money in circulation. People know that the $1 you have today is worth less than the $1 printed tomorrow.
So bread prices increase based on that expectation. You buy bread, but it’s $1 more. How would the people buy more bread - by printing money. Cycle repeats. Hyperinflation.
Also its self reinforcing. Inflation erodes the real value of tax revenue. This worsens the government’s budget deficit. The government then often finances that deficit by printing more money. That fuels more inflation, which erodes real tax revenue further, and so on
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u/Classy_Maggot 8h ago
Germany tried that once. There's a reason the Weimar Republic lasted for about a decade