Sentences with phrase «to print money»

He then turns to a related point, which is that the Fed is somehow «monetizing the debt» — printing money so that the government doesn't have to legitimately pay off its obligations.

It's like being allowed to print money in your basement to buy savings bonds.

A related question I sometimes hear — which bears also on the relationship between monetary and fiscal policy, is this: By buying securities, are you «monetizing the debt» — printing money for the government to use — and will that inevitably lead to higher inflation?

For more than four years now, the U.S. Federal Reserve has tried to do just that through a security - purchasing program known as quantitative easing — also commonly referred to as «printing money.»

If the Central Bank creates money to refinance the bonds, then it will, effectively, be printing money to fund the government's budget deficit.

That's the libertarian line against governments printing money.

Raising rates while the Federal Reserve in the U.S. keeps printing money will send the Canadian dollar higher, increasing the price of exports and hurting the profitability of manufacturers.

For conspiracy theorists, the government's licence to print money is nothing short of a stealth tax.

Central banks around the world have been printing money in an effort to avoid deflation.

As noted in many answers below, Google is an incredible machine that prints money thanks to AdWords.

The rub has been that government has been exceptionally able in printing money and creating promises, but is unable to print gold or create oil.

His country had been spending far more than it collected in taxes for as long as he had lived, and paying for the shortfall by printing money or borrowing from international investors.

Yet self - serving governments trying to prop up struggling economies are printing money like never before.

«I think the pressure [to increase interest rates] will be there, because the Fed in the U.S. should stop printing money, and taper off as they say,» Mr. Flaherty, referring to the dialling back of U.S. bond - buying, told CTV in an interview aired Sunday.

Central banks printed money with abandon while governments shovelled it into failed banks and ran up massive deficits.

The idea of minting a trillion - dollar coin has picked up as an option that would allow the Treasury to temporarily print money to pay the country's bills and work around the debt ceiling.

That's because printing money tends to depress the U.S. dollar, lower interest rates and raise commodity prices — all of which tend to make farmland attractive.

So, they print money, they buy financial assets — in both cases they did.

When taxing capacity falls short of financial commitments, central banks usually end up printing money to buy up government debt.

The document reportedly indicates that as long as inflation remains below the Fed's self - imposed target of 2 %, the bank can keep printing money to fight unemployment.

Although it is very popular to say the US is «printing money», the reality is that US moneygrowth, at roughly 7 %, is spot on the long - term average.

And its only improved for the other 10 due to an outfit that can print money at will, buying stocks every day, thus forcing that market higher and higher.

VC's were making investments every other financially prudent institution wouldn't touch — and they were printing money.

It has put untold millions in the pockets of people who turned city permits into a license to print money.

You could not print money fast enough to compensate for such inflation.

The entrepreneur said his technology has helped blind people recognize print money and encouraged children to brush their teeth via an app called the Disney Magic Timer.

The government really doesn't «print money» in any meaningful sense.

If expectations are forward - looking, and if economic agents think some part of the debt will have to be paid for by printing money, higher interest rates might be the result, or higher wages.

And replace government debt with newly printed money.

The result will be the same as the US, the too big to fail banks will be gifted huge swags of Government printed money, Government revenue will collapse and they will then print 50 % of their budget into the foreseeable future.

«The central banks» plans for printing money to buy bonds from national governments running huge deficits can not be considered a long - term solution to debt problems.»

When foreign funds could not be borrowed, countries had to pay gold to defray the costs of their military spending, or go off gold to print money freely and see their currencies depreciate.

Plus, they're not controlled by a central bank that can run rampant printing money and bring on hyperinflation.

Suppose the quantity of money is increased by tax reduction or government transfer payments, government expenditures remaining unchanged and the resulting deficit being financed by borrowing from the central bank or simply printing money [he adds a footnote, which Friedman lifted without direct attribution: «Open market operations are different, because they result merely in a substitution of one type of asset for another.»]»

The problem, so it seemed, was that the central bank would have to «print money» in order to pay workers.

The most outrageous IMF demand is repeated like a mantra year after year: Russia must not print money to pay its workers their wage arrears, as this would be inflationary.

The Fed usually assigns an inflation target, which currently stands at 2 %, and adjusts interest rates, prints money, or buys back debt to reach such a target.

And the US government is going to create about $ 2 trillion of new Treasury Bonds and exchange these perfectly good Treasury Bonds that are as good as cash (because you know the government can always print the money), they'll exchange these bonds — cash for trash.

A: No, I think that when interest rates are constrained by the zero bound, it is appropriate for central banks to look, if conditions warrant, for other ways to be expansionary and swapping short term assets for long term assets or what is the equivalent of a liquidity trap, printing money and buying long term assets, can be a reasonable solution.

The Treasury, again, does not print money to pay claims.

Craig, I concluded in 2003 that the elitists would hold up the system with printed money and credit creation until they had swept every last crumb of middle class wealth off the table and into their own pockets.

It also tells us that the willingness of the credit market — which have behaved like moronic drunken sailors for the last 5 years — is unwilling to chase bad money with more printed money.

The narrative that developed at that time — «The US is printing money; we are going to end up like Weimar Germany, in hyperinflation» — made sense to me.

Through its trademark protections and $ 100 + billion bottling network, the purveyor of the most sacred of libations possesses what has been described as a license to print money.

There has also been criticism as to the robustness of the Heidelberger currency printer in light of the near - constant requirement to print money 24/7, 365 days a year, and concern as to whether components of the printer have been ethically sourced.

Please Progressives do nt be «too short - sighted» in printing money, balance your book, either from taxes, loans.

Do nt print money.

The only event that will save Glencore is a massive helicopter drop of more printed money and I doubt even that will move the needle on commodity prices (except gold and silver, of course) other than a brief knee - jerk bounce.

But it will be, and this defrocking may occur in as short a period as five to 10 years... If the dollar loses status as the world's most reliable currency, the United States will lose the right to print money to pay its debt.

They need central bankers to print money and buy debt.