Do you think US government should print more money?

If we just print more money with nothing behind it, how long will it solve the problem? It will just hit harder later. What if I had debt and just printed more money to pay it. How sensible is that?

Only if they give it just to the poor. We have enough money, it's that the rich won't give it up. We need to create a more variable job market geared towards people.

I do not understand this idea of just printing more money. What is there to back up the value of money printed? We used to have gold as the standard and every dollar had to have an equivalent amount of gold in storage to back it up. What do we have now? The promise from China that they will cover the value? Someone needs to help me understand this please.

I was also thinking of this before..maybe if my country will print more money maybe things will be better..But as i was searching for answers, i realized that a government cannot just print more money bills and other tender..because everything relies on the gold reserves. Like if my country on has this specific amount of gold reserves that is like its parameter in printing money unless it increases its gold reserves

No that isn't a good idea to print more money because than the moneys worth would go down like a dollar bill would probably go down in it's value. It's what happens with these things and I wish we weren't in debt, but printing money is not the way to go solving that. It sounds easy when one says lets just print more money, but in reality things become worst.

I think a country can print money according to its gold reserve and not print as the country like, too much money printed means lot of money is floating and traded outside the country and some being exchange into other currency , once changed it losses it value as value being transffered into out currencies. domestically usually money is enough, however, inflation alwasys made money more expensive.

NO!! They keep printing money in an attempt to keep the population content, to keep the misery at a minimum but the misery is spreading. They print money to keep their jobs and get re-elected. They are ruining the economy. If I ran my household like the Government runs the economy I would be in jail for fraud and other charges and I would be bankrupt. The US should let things happen and suck it up, ride it out and do the best we can. Then the bad economy will finally recover. Instead, they stave off the collapse of the housing market, Wall Street investment firms, car companies....they are just delaying the inevitable and when the final collapse comes it will be worse than if they had not intervened. The world is laughing at us right now and I don't blame them.

You have to be careful in printing more money.It didn't do weimar Germany any favours there are lots of images of people pushing wheel barrows full of money just to buy bread and peoples savings became worthless.However i don't think it is very likely as i think the us are more astute than that and it may help increase us exports as american products will cost less abroad.

They will continue in order to support the economy until it gets going again. If they let the economy slip into recession, lots of people worldwide are going to get hurt very badly. It would also help a great deal if they could get the speculators out of the oil market. That is the biggest drag on the economy. Without speculators, prices would drop in half. The economy would start up again.

This is really one of the things that is going to screw us over even more. I mean, it already has caused a lot of trouble many times in the past. Therefore, there are a lot of times where printing more money might seem like a good idea. However, it is the furthest thing from a good idea ever. In fact, it is one of the worst decisions that someone trying to fix an economy could ever be made. Therefore, you just end up with a lot of worthless paper. In the end, I have no idea what we should do to fix the economy. However printing more money is far from the right answer. In fact it is the wrong answer, one of the worst answers. It is really something that is going to just end up killing the economy far worse than it is. And it really is pretty bad to say the very least. Therefore, there might be an answer to fixing the economy. However, I don't think that this is the answer. In fact this is really the worst answer all together.

Isn't that what got us into this mess? The US method of spending money that you haven't got, whether it is at personal, family or government level, has got to stop. America is ruining the economies of the entire world. Just admit that you're broke!

No, they should not do that at all. Germany tried doing that awhile back alls it did was made an influx in money, made there problems even worse. 1.00 would be equal too 1,000. It's like if you had a really rare coin, the only one in the world. Then somewhere they found a warehouse full of these coins that time had forgotten about. your coins value would plummet since everyone would have one since there is so many. Same thing applies with the dollar the more we have the less valuable it is.