Number one is: it opened the door to
endless money printing because up until that point if the Fed chose to print a ton of currency, central banks and foreign governments could still convert their dollars into gold if they wanted to via the Fed.
Not exact matches
They left this country in the worst state ever and it has only been because of the
endless borrowing and
printing Monopoly
money by my right honourable friend, the Prime Minister, that we have managed only to be # 250 billion pounds in debt.
And despite the
endless platitudes about cash growing on trees, American
money isn't
printed on paper at all — bills are created with a hybrid blend of 75 % cotton and 25 % linen.
Creeping tax takes, overspending by government,
printing money, keeping interest rates too low for too long, or too high for too long, penalty taxes on primary inputs, implementing market distorting subsidies — the scope is
endless.
Your belief that fiat
money can be
printed in an
endless supply just shows that you don't even understand the progressive economics you think you are in favor of.