Yes, but a euphemism for what? Increase money supply without increasing the balance sheet of the Fed? Increase money supply by increasing the balance sheet of the Fed. These two might sound similar but they are worlds apart. One of them matches the physical process of printing money and the other one doesn't. Yet somehow in this HN submission "printing money" suddenly became a euphemism for both at the same time and the authors of the comments using the euphemism simply change the meaning to something convenient after the fact.