Is It Illegal to Print Money?, BBS 2026 Day 1
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0:00A: Well, to answer your question, right, you know, I think the most important thing for people to get is inflation. How much do you know about inflation?
0:06B: Not really much.
0:07A: I
0:08B: may have heard of it, but if you --
0:09A: Most people.
0:10B: Yeah.
0:11A: But, you know, the reality is that inflation is the price of goods going up over time because of the value of the dollar is going down.
0:18B: Gotcha.
0:18A: And the value of the dollar goes down because people can print US dollars. And when they print more, you know, the pie gets -- the slices get skinnier.
0:24B: Even though it is illegal to print, like, Money. Yeah, yeah.
0:27A: For you, but not for the Federal Reserve.
0:29B: That’s their job. Gotcha. But mostly people actually do print out money by using like money to use a print combination to make more money. You know, it’s illegal to do so.
0:40A: Yeah, that’s true. They commit fraud like that.
0:42B: Yeah, that’s what I’m saying.
0:43A: But, but people say that inflation is the biggest tax on the working class because the government’s able to print money while devaluing the labor that you do every day because now your dollars go less far at the store, right, when you need things. But your minimum wage doesn’t track with that. Your wages aren’t tracking with that.
