print money
Verb
Meaning
(intransitive, informal) To be extremely profitable.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see print, money.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgExamples
Like having your own licence to print money.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.