The lack of money is a major cause of the
economic problems of the nations. But money is a creation of human beings.
Money has not intrinsic value but which assigned people.
The function of money is to serve as an
instrument for the settlement of transactions in the economy. If the economy
grows money needs also grow and vice versa, if the economy stagnates or
decrease cash needs decrease.
In the modern world the only legal currency
issuers are governments, states. When economic needs increase governments are
forced to print more money.
It is therefore important the following
question: Is there a limit to the amount of money that an economy can to issue?
The answer is no, there is no limit to the
amount of money that governments can issue in their national currency.
What is the money back?
Theoretically, the national currencies of the
countries are backed by gold and foreign reserves, specifically, dollars of the
United States of America, which is used as a reserve currency for most countries
central banks.
As such we can formulate the following
questions:
What is the U.S. dollar backing?
The backing of the U.S. dollar is the people
faith in the currency that is internationally accepted as payment instrument, nothing
more.
What is the real value of gold?
The value of gold is relative and is also based
on its acceptance as a mean of store of value and in jewelry, nothing else.
From this we can infer that the support of
other currencies of other countries of the world is also the faith of the
people in those currencies as a medium of exchange, nothing more.
The amount of money circulating in an economy
determines the expansion or stagnation of the economy. For that reason,
monetary policy is the most important instrument of economic policy.
The U.S. government prints more money to
satisfy the needs of its economy and the global economy since the dollar is the
international currency exchange. So it is a mistake and an exaggeration to talk
about U.S. fiscal cliff.
Those who say that the United States is in a
fiscal cliff are causing great harm to the reliability of the dollar as
international reserve currency and payment and this and this could generate an intense
global monetary crisis.
United States is not in a fiscal cliff, the
government of that country is only serving the needs of its economy and the
world economy.
Links:
Money is only metal
and paper without intrinsic value
Fiscal deficit
and size of the economy
The debt
is not a problem for the United States
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