Inflation is pretty low right now. Just printing money does not produce inflation - if it did we would have seen massive inflation during Quantitative Easing, w

Inflation is pretty low right now. Just printing money does not produce inflation - if it did we would have seen massive inflation during Quantitative Easing, when the Fed put trillions into the economy. In fact there was almost none. This is because inflation is governed by the equation of exchange, MV = PQ. M is the supply of money, V is its velocity (how fast it is being spent), P is prices and Q is aggregate demand. If M goes up, P only goes up if Q and V are constant. In an economy like ours where the productive capacity is much greater than demand, M can rise without much effect on P. In general the government can continue printing money at the rate that productivity growth supports. Since this is related to the amount of borrowing, debt probably isn't going to cause inflation.