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print money

Verb

Meaning

(intransitive, informal) To be extremely profitable.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see print,‎ money.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Like having your own licence to print money. Roy Thomson

Well, the problem of the federal government is that they print money and go in debt. That's their national policy, Democrats and Republicans it doesn't matter. And this is where I differ. Richard M. Daley

The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default. Alan Greenspan

By creating the European Central Bank, the member states exposed their own government bonds to the risk of default. Developed countries that issue bonds in their own currency never default, because they can always print money. Their currency may depreciate, but the risk of default is absent. George Soros

To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad. Eric Alterman

We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States of America. By its very nature, we control that, and this system is there as representation of us. J. C. Chandor

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