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In economic development, as in life, there’s no free lunch: Without high rates of investment in know-how, skills, machinery, and sustainable infrastructure, productivity tends to decline (mainly through depreciation), dragging down living standards.

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So it's not obvious how it leads to inflation in the country doing the actual printing unless it leads to a currency depreciation of that country.

Once confidence began to recover and market conditions stabilized, the East Asian economies shifted their monetary and fiscal policies toward expansion and embraced large-scale exchange-rate depreciation – efforts that enhanced their export competitiveness.

But targeting the consumer price index precludes this, because depreciation would raise the price of imported oil, food, and other tradable commodities.

There is a widespread suspicion that the US is deliberately pursuing dollar depreciation (or “currency wars,” in the words of Brazil’s finance minister).

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