Debt monetization
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Debt monetization is when the government pays off debt via the process of printing more money to pay its creditors.[1] Debt monetization leads to inflation.[2] According to Richard Fisher the President of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, "Throughout history what the political class has done is they have turned to the central bank to print their way out of an unfunded liability.[3]