printing more money -- or not.

Factual Questions
1

I’m under the impression that the actual printing of money in a greater or lesser ratio to how much is already out there has an effect on the country’s economy. My question is, with more and more of the world’s monetary transactions being done eletronically, through credit, whatever, does the actual printing of money have the same effect on the economy that it used to?

Dag, financial questions always confuse me.

2

The amount of money printed in the US is tiny. Here’s Cecil on the subject:

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_163.html

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