Evaluate the following statement?

Evaluate the following statement: "if we increase the money supply we can lower unemployment."

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    Under certain conditions an increase in the money supply will coincide with lower unemployment but money supply alone can not lower unemployment. Money supply and unemployment are only peripherally linked. In an environment where job creation is likely, cheaper and more available cash does help facilitate that. In an uncertain environment where job creation is not likely no amount of money is going to help. Jobs are not created just because an employer has enough money to hire more employees. Jobs are created when an employer needs more employees. So to evaluate your statement: it implies a causal relationship that does not exits in reality.

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Kind of late to be doing homework, isn't it?

TurboB

Compare it to the flip side - supposing you rewrote it "If we decrease money supply, we will increase unemployment". That is 100% true.

ElBanditoRoso

No exactly! Just stuck on those question by undersanding. .do not how to answer it..

huanle891215

It is the sort of pie-in-the-sky simplistic outlook I expect from the farthest fringes of the left wing. It completely ignores most of the human factors that led to the high unemployment rate.

TheLightWorks

>Jobs are not created just because an employer has enough money to hire more employees. Jobs are created when an employer needs more employees. so what... you're saying that reducing the employer's income taxes is not going to inspire him to create jobs? It's going to take producing enough customer base to require him to expand his capacity? be careful, that's liberal talk.

TheLightWorks

Printing more doesn't increase the total value of the economy, it is good short term solution (especially to cover debt). Like the Federal Interest Rate, someone must take responsibly and decrease paper when things get better.

sleeplessness

If a government increases the money supply, it institutes inflation, which raises prices, which makes EVERYTHING more difficult for those who are not employed (i.e., not getting any of that money.) To your question, the one who owns a factory will be unwilling to spend money on equipment in an inflationary period because that equipment will be too expensive--over-priced, actually. As he won't expand his business, employment won't expand, either. And Germany between WWI and the Nazi government did exactly this, and it solved nothing.

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