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>This makes printing money as a way to finance the government very dangerous, though.

Well… It depends, is what I hear.

If you use debt to finance economic stimulus (i.e. World War 2) then you're making a bet that the amount of money you spend now will be offset by the jumpstart in economic growth you're creating. A crazy amount of things affect the economy.




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