printing money
Minting paper bills
Printing money refers literally to the production of currency by a government or central bank.
More commonly, it describes creating money through policy mechanisms like quantitative easing, often criticized as inflationary: The Fed is just printing money at this point.
Figuratively, printing money means generating profit effortlessly: That app is printing money for them.
- banknotesPaper currency notes
- paper currencyPrinted money sheets
- currencyMedium of exchange
- mintingProducing official currency
- economySystem of trade and production
inflation · central bank · counterfeiting · liquidity · devaluation · sovereign debt · treasury · quantitative easing · economic intervention · Weimar Republic · legal tender · currency debasement · lender of last resort · gold reserves · crisis management · Federal Reserve · stimulus · hyperinflation
- monetary policyinflation, central banking, deflation, central bank, interest rates
- money systemsbank reserves, central bank, fiat currency, banknotes, M2
- currencydollar, euro, pound, yen, peso
printing moneyworking for a living
productive labor · honest work · sweat equity · entrepreneurship
printing moneyfiscal austerity
Reduced government expenditure policy
paying down debt · fiscal restraint · austerity · sound money · living within means
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