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by mindslight 2470 days ago
Yes, it is not literally "printing money" in the way that the US Mint physically does. The term is appropriate though, as the result of translating from the paradigm banks operate in into the paradigm natural persons are bound by. We can only give away what we have received - I cannot give a friend $20 in exchange for an IOU, and then transmute that IOU into a crisp new $20 bill.