The only way to create inflation is to create a war.
Printing money has no effect on deflation. That money must be borrowed, and with high debt nobody can do so.
Those without money can't afford to borrow.
Those with money have no desire to borrow and buy assets that may fall in price.
It's called a liquidity trap because the money being printed by the Fed is TRAPPED.
The booms and busts are just crack cocaine highs and crashes and the addict (Washington-MSM-stockbrokers-americans) are putting the crack rocks on their kids credit cards because "we have to". None of these even republicans ideas fix anything. It's all “we have to” like the parents on A+E Intervention buying their kids more crack, to keep them out of jail for stealing, “we have to”