If you got your hands on printing press and 'produced' couple hundred bills, it is not a profit even you are able to use them in the near grocery store.Why are you insisting on assuming that this is what "profit" means? Did you not notice my earlier response that corrected this for you?
Do you know that Fed is the major (practically only one) buyer of Treasury bills at this point?What does that have to do with the price of fish?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
