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Downsides aside, won't inflation help exports and keep USD-denominated trade attractive?

It's not like we're the only economy suffering. We might be doing the best of the whole lot.




Well, the ECB is also printing, and the overseas cooperation is pretty good. But it's still visible on the currency charts that something is going on. Just go to Trading View and have a look. Also compare when money printing started after the "Rony Crash" in March 2020, and when a lot of stocks, commodities, and not least Bitcoin started mooning like crazy soon after. What you're witnessing is a giant transfer of wealth.


Inflation only improves the balance of trade if we inflate faster than our trading partners. Lately many countries have been engaged in a competitive currency devaluation race to the bottom.


Well, since March 2020 the Euro has increased in value to the US Dollar.




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