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Thousands of years of pre Adam smith history where the concept of macroeconomics did not exist. Obviously a naive implementation of monetary expansion causes price inflation, that doesn’t mean a well implemented monetary expansion does though.


The Law of Supply & Demand is there whether it is recognized or not.

> that doesn’t mean a well implemented monetary expansion does though

Then none of them are well implemented, because all examples of fiat money exhibit endemic inflation. The reason is straightforward - the whole point of a fiat money system is to inflate it.


The decade following 08 had exactly the goal inflation even though there was unprecedented monetary expansion.




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