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Who cares? The roaring 20s will be great!

This needs to happen in order for the US to deal with its debts.

With the minor side effect that no one will be able to afford rent or groceries, but hey that's not what's important.

Only works if the US actually sells bonds and not just T-bills. Otherwise the market can just price in inflation.

or dollar losing value

Causing the dollar to devalue is a part of the strategy.

otherwise, it would be really hard to scale with a strong dollar :)

Elaborate?

Debt becomes cheaper with devaluation of the dollar, and the US has a lot of it.

Not just that. Imports become more expensive; exports become cheaper. This helps US manufacturing.