In what way? The same way it always has. Having the ability to get more raw material per unit of currency spent.
Look at the computer industry. Look at the huge jump in sales when you could get a Pentium 1 that could do the same stuff that expensive computer did but without breaking the bank account. It grew dispite insane spending then. And grew again when you could get a cheap core to power your phone or protable gaming system or whatever.
Today its dollars per core it used to be Benjamins per batch of megahertz.
Technology increased the value of the dollar without there being a physical shortage of currency.
First and foremost you need to get any ideas of "stop printing" out of your heads. It is politically IMPOSSIBLE. You even try to slow it and you will have massive protests of people screaming "What about my child!" "What about my whatever" And be voted out by a landslide next election. It cant be done by a dem or a pub or a green or a libertarian or a "fiscal conservative" Period...
With that in mind the best option by far is technology development. Battery and Fusion will have the highest initial payoff but there is still boatloads of other stuff that could use funding now. And they arent sinks either. These are university projects and the like that take that money and convert it into a tech that private industry uses.
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