www.shutterstock.com October 22, 2020 Explainer: why the government can’t simply cancel its pandemic debt by printing more money Ananish Chaudhuri, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Massive borrowing to fund NZ’s economic recovery due to COVID-19 cannot be written off without the risk of worsening the crisis it was designed to meet.
The Fed is ‘making’ a lot of money. Alex Wong/Getty Images June 10, 2020 How the Federal Reserve literally makes money William J. Luther, Florida Atlantic University The Fed is spending up to US$2.3 trillion to help save the U.S. economy from the coronavirus recession. But where does all that money come from?
Money printing isn’t the answer to all economic problems. Image sourced from Shutterstock.com January 18, 2017 Printing more money isn’t the answer to all economic ills Richard Holden, UNSW Sydney If it is so easy to fix a nation’s economic ills – just run the printing presses round the clock – then why doesn’t everyone do it?