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Subject: Re: devalueing currency: why ?
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If you want you can call be stupid, but isn't that inflation
by printing new money (also a form of "devaluation" but not
generally called so?), where devaluation normally means that
you fiddle by political order with the exchange-rate in order
to give foreigners too much of your own money ? 

Inflation: print a number of trillions.
Devaluation: when foreign coin wants to buy your coin, give them
significantly more then its worth ??????????????????????????????

As 'they say': "devaluation helps exports and reduces imports"
I don't see the connection with inflation through printing fresh
money. Say I'm Holland and sovereign with the Gulden, and I print
1 trillion more (for whatever reason); how could that possibly
help exports ? Rather I'd guess people with foreign coin avoid
Holland on hyper-inflation, what they exchanged in the morning
migth have lost half its value by the evening (or is that an
extreme concern only for hyper-inflation.) Serious inflation
seems like a clue for instability, neither that great to trade
with then ? Also if foreigners have our coin, and we inflate,
their coin loses value thus they can buy less of our stuff.