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Governments devalue their currency to make debt repayment less costly. Devaluation causes inflation which hurts the value of existing bonds including Government Bonds (e.g. USA Government Treasury Bills). So the government pays back debt in dollars that are worth less. Also, the inflation increases nominal tax revenue that hurts the nation's comsumers as savings is destructed.

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