Australia has a lot of foreign businesses and it has a lot of immigrants. Both earn Australian dollars and huge amounts would be sent back their country of origin.

His does Australia balance its books on something like this? How do the economics of it work? Would it lower Australian inflation but shortening the money supply, and raise inflation of the destination country as it prints more money to exchange the Australian dollar?

  • kwking13
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    There’s a LOT that goes into global monetary policy. I know more than some, but it’s complicated in a way that’s not easy or quick to explain here.

    So to try and keep it short, there’s at least a couple major trade-offs. First, it would be somewhat offset by Australian immigrants working in other foreign countries and sending money home to Australia. Second, Australia has global trade partners for a multitude of things and can offset imbalances through borrowing or lending through international trade if and when needed.

    There’s really so much more that goes into it and it’s a bit different for every country, but that’s a broad idea of how it can balance out.

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      Ahh, okay. Yeah I imagine it’s a spider’s web of in-and- money-flow, macroeconomics at play.

      So you’re saying it does balance with everything considered? And to remain a wealthy country our bottomline must be in the black when all added up?

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        theres mechanisms to help balance it out, like forex markets, currency pegging to standards, and actual transfers of gold.