It might be unrelated somewhat to the chapter but people don't even realize how uninformed they are when they talk about just printing money and problems just magically go away. Obviously, if you just start printing money, inflation will get out of control and people will dump your currency faster than the melted gold from coins you've taken out of circulation for your paper money. The only reason America can create so much money out of nothing without the resulting consequence is due to a variety of factors; a major one being that the US Dollar is the world's reserve currency and having a monopoly on international transactions of oil, and another being that the money is created through a "private bank" and then loaned to the government rather than simply being created and allowed to circulate freely from thereon. Without those factors, we could not export our inflation away from the domestic market and would very quickly see very high inflation, and that all stems from our system of fractional reserve banking where a bank can loan out more money than they actually have from real customer's deposits.