>You do know there was no printing in the middle age. Good old days these all were. Oh come now, there was plenty of printing in the latter days of Rome or Wie

>You do know there was no printing in the middle age. Good old days these all were. Oh come now, there was plenty of printing in the latter days of Rome or Wiemar Germany and people managed to starve just fine despite it. Inflation correlates with optimistic times because it implies a debt taken on today will be easier to pay off with money earned tomorrow. That doesn't mean printing money reliably makes people optimistic.