This is the answer to Do central banks maintain currency scarcity in order to create conflict?

No: scarcity is a function of real variables, not nominal variables

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Cutlass adds: That quote in isolation doesn't make any sense to me. You can print allthe money in the world. That doesn't mean you can buy anything with it.Google Zimbabwe hyperinflation. It's not getting the common people fed.What that author ignored is that many people lack money not because ofthe shortage of money, but because they don't earn it. They have noskills and no capital and no work. Therefor they have no income.Increasing the supply of cash does not affect that. Of course,excessively strict money does impede people working. But excessivelyloose money does does not provide jobs. There's only so much money inand of itself can do. Money is a tool, not the answer to all problems.