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I have a "different" problem. I have a 67 Trillion Dollar Treasury with -1.4% inflation. HOW can I raise inflation and get it to ..say 2% or something near there? I've tried to lower the tax rate and raising social spending but it really doesn't help. Also, I am not exporting anything or importing anything. I have the "green bar" or "stock" all the way up and am playing as the US. Any ideas??

whats your unemployment at? and maybe a screenshot of what your taxes and social spending are would be good too.

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lol, mental block here.

Uh, how do I capture that particular screen? Tried a "print screen" but there was nothing to copy in the clipboard when I went to paste.

Print screen, then go out of game or press Tab+ alt if i remember corectly, go to paint, press Ctrl+V to paste it and save it in jpg. format.(save as.)

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Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.

Ok was able to do it but the webpage won't accept it because the file is too big. It was even in jpg so that was curious. Must be my screen resolution etc.

Anyway, my tax rate is around 47.5 Unemployment is at 8+
and my social spending is almost near what is recommended.
I am self-sufficient in all resources as I'm taking over the world.
I have not cheated.
I have modified some of the US military units via modding. Added some different units etc. but have NOT modified
any spending, money, or economic factors.

after you paste it into paint. Select the area that has the info and just copy that. Open up a new paint and past the now copied selection in there. This will acualy be a very small picture that will be able to fit as an attachment.

At any rate you have an 8% unemployment rate, theres your problem right there. You need to start producing more. Find a resource that you can export for a higher price then you can produce it. start making more of it. Export it.

Unemployment rate is a figure that is important in the game. 3.5 percent is ideal. nothing above nothing below. Well maybe a lil above, but dont go lower then 3 percent.

In some cases its even better to export a resource at a loss then it is to not produce it at all. For instance at 8 percent unemployment your basicaly loosing 5 percent of your taxable peoples. it also drives GDP down. So 5 percent of a 350 million population is 17.5 million people. With an average income of $40k anualy thats taxed 47 percent. Thats a loss of $329 billion in income every year. in taxes alone. You still have to pay for all the services of these people too. Not to mention these people are low income so they are not buying as much of your domestic stock, so you are even loosing more income there.

Comercial goods for example you can produce for somthing like $22,000 a unit. Even if you sold them at $20,000 a unit for a $2,000 per unit loss, you could produce more then 3 times as much consumer goods as you are producing now and still make a higher income threw the increased tax revenue then the loss from exporting at a loss.

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Thank you. BIG help. I'll give it a try.