When central banks hit zero interest rates they print money and buy bonds; in 2008 and again in 2020 (COVID) the government sent out checks funded by borrowing, with the central bank printing money and lending it to the government, and the resulting surge of money was the main cause of the subsequent inflation - the same dynamic occurred in 1933.

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Ray Dalio

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mostly it was the amount of money going in

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Ray Dalio on AI, Job Loss & the Future of the Economy | EP #148Peter H. Diamandis
Created: 6/18/2026, 1:59:18 PM

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