Monetary Policy Is Not A Panacea.

To Avoid Large And Unsustainable Budget Deficits, The Nation Will Ultimately Have To Choose Among Higher Taxes, Modifications To Entitlement Programs Such As Social Security And Medicare, Less Spending On Everything Else From Education To Defense, Or Some Combination Of The Above.

Inflation Is Certainly Low And Stable And, Measured In Unemployment And Labour-market Slack, The Economy Has Made A Lot Of Progress. The Pace Of Growth Is Disappointingly Slow, Mostly Because Productivity Growth Has Been Very Slow, Which Is Not Really Something Amenable To Monetary Policy. It Comes From Changes In Technology, Changes In Worker Skills And A Variety Of Other Things, But Not Monetary Policy, In Particular.

The U.s. Government Has A Technology, Called A Printing Press (or, Today, Its Electronic Equivalent), That Allows It To Produce As Many U.s. Dollars As It Wishes At Essentially No Cost.

The Amount Of Currency In Circulation Is Not Changing. The Money Supply Is Not Changing In Any Significant Way.

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