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by anm89 1935 days ago
Sure. As far as I'm aware of not a single historical episode of hyperinflation ever had anything to do with QE.

QE is central bank asset purchases, not attached to specific policy or spending, extending into the long end of the yield curve, of a pre determined quantity, at least pre determined per time period.

The first people to do this were the Japanese in the mid 90s. So every hyper inflation event before that was not caused by QE. The ones after it as well. Venezuela and Zimbabwe weren't trying to influence the yield curve when they hyper inflated, they were printing money directly to pay debt and buy commodities.

Despite the fact that QE increases the money supply, it is not synonymous with literally printing money