That and it's a fallacy to state that printing more (or less) money is a cause of inflation or deflation. What is more important is the amount of money that is present and circulating versus the amount that is needed to be in circulation. If there is more money present than there is need for, inflation occurs. The reverse for deflation.
I like to compare it to the blood supply, since an economy is much like a living organism anyway: Adding more blood to the body may help cure certain disorders, but it can cause other problems in the process. Ditto if it is taken out of the body.
See, here's where one of the hundred billion conditionals that go onto the "simplicity" of free-market economics - you know, the ones that neocons and "libertarians" and republicans always forget about - rears its ugly head. I.e. that the S/D curves respond to the actual supply that reaches market much more rapidly, and much more effectively, than they do to rumors of more supply
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Currency manipulation is especially vulnerable to this (See: Argentina. See Also: pre/post-uncoupled Yuan)
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I like to compare it to the blood supply, since an economy is much like a living organism anyway: Adding more blood to the body may help cure certain disorders, but it can cause other problems in the process. Ditto if it is taken out of the body.
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