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canadianhere 17 points ago +17 / -0

So how does it work when the US national debt is about three times the value of all the gold in the world?

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canadianhere 11 points ago +11 / -0

Print enough money to pay off the debts, then return to the gold standard.

That's what Zimbabwe and Venezuela both did. When you print money to pay off the debts, you get hyper-inflation. Like, literally hundreds of thousands of percent per annum. Changing currencies doesn't work.

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IbleedOrange 2 points ago +2 / -0

Printing money to give to people doesn't result in hyper-inflation?