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by dragonwriter 1900 days ago
> Why is American stimulus not comparable to Zimbabwean stimulus?

Well, for one thing, the US wasn’t engaging in a massive and extended campaign of expropriation of productive assets that was destroying the core of the economy over a period of years while printing orders of magnitude more dollars than had ever existed, when inflation by traditional measures waa already significant when the money printing started.