"Printing money does, currently, make us richer." Assuming that printing dollars results in a net transfer of wealth from foreigners ("them") to citizens ("us

"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.