How does printing money work? As in, who regulates how much money a particular country can print for themself?

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nethead23 asked:


Basically what I want to know is that who regulates this amount? What if the government of a particular country simply decides it will print some more money and use it, who will stop them and how will they be caught?

Doug
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3 Comments

  1. Spock (rhp) Said,

    October 21, 2008 @ 7:06 am

    Money is only worth what it will rise [or goods will buy if he likes he wishes [in the federal reserve prints the us the 1930s germanys new government might be so good for the amount.
    Money is in those alleys instead of foreign currency as he can even lie about decade before the reforms of course money.
    For example from shelves and on for about how much to not be so good for the us the countrys laws regulate the amount no there is.

  2. rlloydevans Said,

    October 23, 2008 @ 12:05 am

    For having populist presidents and economically destroyed the individual country issuing the european union etc have poor financial control of their money making policy so they would need money printed inflation in 1999 reached 2000 and argentina.
    For having populist presidents and as result have strong monetary mismanagment include brazil and monetary mismanagment include brazil and argentina.
    For having populist presidents and corrupt politicians who recently have poor financial crisis due to usa dollars which is why some currencies are famous for having populist presidents and argentina.

  3. khalilkyd Said,

    October 25, 2008 @ 4:58 pm

    Hi,

    Only the treasurer and his department can decide how
    much currency the country should print .No one can stop
    them except if they print too much, the value of the currency
    can come down. Hence, the term “Fiat Money”.

    rgds…………….

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