This was published ten years ago (November 2010):
> We believe the Federal Reserve's large-scale asset purchase plan (so-called "quantitative easing") should be reconsidered and discontinued. We do not believe such a plan is necessary or advisable under current circumstances. The planned asset purchases risk currency debasement and inflation, and we do not think they will achieve the Fed's objective of promoting employment.
* https://economics21.org/html/open-letter-ben-bernanke-287.ht...
Still waiting for said debasement and inflation. Any time now. Real soon.
> [Young people] will inherit the national debt as well.
You know who else will inherit the national debt? Their children, and grand children, and great grand children, and great-great grand children. Not too long ago the UK rolled forward debt from the South Sea Bubble (1700s), Napoleonic Wars (early 1800s), Crimean War (late 1800s), and WW1 (1910s):
* https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/oct/31/uk-first-wo...
As long as economic growth is higher than the interest rate of the debt, it's generally not a problem. And interest rates have been, with some gyrations, dropping for over 700 years:
* https://www.visualcapitalist.com/700-year-decline-of-interes...
The CPI is an arbitrary indicator set and counted by the government in secrecy, the same entity that has the incentive to keep its value low. Even if someone trusts the government, it does not mean they should trust it completely.
* https://www.forbes.com/sites/perianneboring/2014/02/03/if-yo...
* https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2020/08/31/is...
As I mentioned before printing money not backed by the creation of value diminishes the value of money. Otherwise why bother working. The government could print money for all of us and we could party all the time. The printing press was invented quite a while ago, I wonder why no one come up with this solution earlier!
The debt is a burden and increasing it, increases the burden. You can argue of utility of increasing the debt in bad times, but then it should be decreased in good times. If it is not happening then there is something fundamentally wrong.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_price_index
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_index
It's is reproducible by non-government people:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Billion_Prices_project
If you think that inflation is higher than the reported GDP growth:
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3dO8BW9RHg
* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2021/01/inflation-truthers/
* Discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25644580
The question is why we do not see the negative effects in the reported CPI. One explanation is a deflationary force that mitigates the inflationary moves. The long term stable deflationary force is an increase in productivity by technological advancements. But I do not think it can keep up with the printing press.