how to explain what "printing money" means to the missus

[PM-Junkie]

Does anyone have a linky handy for explaining this one to the missus? Missus M is struggling a little with this concept.

Point her to:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8ada2ad4-f...0779fd2ac.html

It explains all.

[MPwannadecentincome]

I'm having my birthday party at the moment(my birthday isn't today, but, the party, it'll take a few days). You've just made an awful lot of people laugh. So your joke works in/across a multicultural paradigm.

It was really very good. I'll buy you a pint one day.

You call that a party - a group of you on these forums?

[threaded]

It means we have become Zimbabwe.

HTH

With carp waether,

[HairyArsedBloke]

This is a good one too:

It is as if you are a beer-maker and the Government pitches up at your warehouse in the dead of night with a truck of water and a truck-load of barrels.

It breaks in without permission, waters down your beer and takes away barrels of beer for its own use. Because it gets first dibs on the barrels, those least diluted will be taken away. You wake up and count your barrels and all seems ok.

When you come to sell your beer you find there is more in the marketplace and what you have is weaker, so the price you get is lower.

Your beer is now less valuable yet the State has beer - money - it never had.

[Liability]

Does anyone have a linky handy for explaining this one to the missus? Missus M is struggling a little with this concept.

Show her the door.

If she cant understand simple things - she needs to pack the bags and go.

Just tell her to walk out the door, dont turn around as she aint welcome anymore.

[Paddy]

Show her the door.

If she cant understand simple things - she needs to pack the bags and go.

Just tell her to walk out the door, dont turn around as she aint welcome anymore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjxY9...eature=related

[Doggy Styles]

You're at an auction with a tenner. A bloke with 20 quid outbids you.

More money is printed. Hooray! Everyone has twice as much to spend!

Now you're at an auction with 20 quid. A bloke with 40 quid outbids you.