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"Printing money does, currently, make us richer."

Assuming that printing dollars results in a net transfer of wealth from foreigners ("them") to citizens ("us"), sure. But the "us" I was referring to was "people who hold or use U.S. Dollars" (or dollar-denominated assets).

Printing money is wealth transfer, straight up, in pretty much the same manner that an individual counterfeiter transfers wealth to himself.



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