"Between 2008 and 2014, the Federal Reserve printed more than $3.5 trillion in new bills. To put that in perspective, it’s roughly triple the amount of money that the Fed created in its first 95 years of existence. Three centuries’ worth of growth in the money supply was crammed into a few short years. The money poured through the veins of the financial system and stoked demand for assets like stocks, corporate debt and commercial real estate bonds, driving up prices across markets."

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/12/28/inflation-interest-rates-thomas-hoenig-federal-reserve-526177

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Nothing stops this train.

This is the difference between the dollar and Bitcoin. With the dollar, not only is the creation of new units constantly increasing, but there is no telling how far it will go. With Bitcoin we have a decrease in creation and we know exactly when how much it will be.