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It can be slowed that way. The way you do it is by raising interest rates. Its money lending that prints more money. Higher interest rates, means less lending.
Which is why Trump is always pissed at federal reserve, because he wants them to keep interest rates low, so that they print more money, making more inflation, because the rich people will be fine, can borrow more, and the poor will die, or be exploitable, sent to die in war, sold as sex slaves, whatever.
He doesnt care what happens to anyone, as long as he gets more wealth, and more power and so do his linke-minded friends, and all these people are doing everytjing in their considerable power, since they own social media, media, control government, and have all the money, to make sure you have no rights, minorities have no rights, workers have no rights, and so on, and the people are doing absolutely nothing about it.
They continue to use these platforms and services, and give money to the very people using it to wage war on their freedom.
Wake the fuck up and start boycotting meta, twitter, Paramount, tikotk, amazon, google. As much as possible. You dont need to use zero google products. Boycotting some of these is difficult, very difficult, thats how the fascists have you by the balls, but all you need to do, is to make sure future stock price predictions are very low, then the stock price plummets, then they lose a LOT of power.
Companies need to believe that siding with maga is choosing bankruptcy.
Don't be a spectator. Fight back.
Interest rate manipulation is one lever the government and the treasury has.
Another way you do that is with treasury bills. It's easier for me to think of it how it works from the point of view of an investor. Do they get cash? Then the investor sold a treasury bill back to the treasury and increased the general money supply/the government buys treasury bills. To decrease the money supply, the investor buys treasury bills/the government sells treasury bills. This happens electronically nowadays, so no actual cash needs to be printed.
The actual amount of specie (cold hard cash) that is needed doesn't necessarily reflect the amount of cash (cash and cash equivalents. Yeah, I know) in an economy anymore