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Who prints their money? The US Treasury, literally. Panama has pegged its currency 1:1 to the US dollar since independence and doesn't even bother printing its
by pauldino 16y ago
Who prints their money? The US Treasury, literally. Panama has pegged its currency 1:1 to the US dollar since independence and doesn't even bother printing its own paper money, using US notes instead.
- aac74 16y agoUnlike the US dollars/balboas in Panama are not printed out of thin air. Panama has to do productive work in order to earn dollars and thus the money supply can not race ahead of the productive capacity of the economy. This is why Panama has never had an inflation problem (unlike the rest of Latin America) and has short periods of deflation.