When people talk about printing money in an economic sense, they aren't talking about running a literal printing press. It is synonymous with increasing the mon

When people talk about printing money in an economic sense, they aren't talking about running a literal printing press. It is synonymous with increasing the money supply. In the lingo of modern economics adding a decimal to a database which results in increasing the money supply is phrased as printing money. In fact this is specifically what they are talking about in most cases, specifically not operating a physical printing press. When the original poster said they printed 2 trillion, he was not implying they physically printed anything.