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Printing more money rarely solves structural market issues

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It turns out you cannot just photocopy your way out of a broken system. Injecting endless paper into a society without increasing actual goods just mathematically guarantees that every single physical item will simply demand more paper.

Printing more money rarely solves structural market issues
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