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Inflation caused by money printing, not "greed"

If there is a glut of timber, the market price will fall as it clears the excess (relatively speaking) inventory. Same for beef or oil or anything else.

When there is a glut of new money, the market clears it in exactly the same way: by lower its price, that is, by devaluing the money. This has nothing to do with anyone's "greed" or lack thereof. It's simply the market clearing an excess and it is as inevitable as the sunrise. Each new batch of hot cash dumped into the market by the central bank will be cleared in exactly the same way, *ad nauseum*. Even the communists couldn't figure out how to stop price-inflation, no matter how many party "traitors" they lined up and shot...
 
The two are not only not mutually exclusive, but rather causally linked.

Greed is a vice which spurs on the call for money printing.
 
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