Simply said, if the Federal Reserve ceases their money printing ways, it will be a deflationary one.

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If the Federal Reserve instead continues its money printing ways ad infinitum, it will be an inflationary, possibly even a hyperinflationary one.

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And if private banks continue their money printing ways, instead of a precipitous fall in the rate of monetary inflation we could be looking at a precipitous rise.

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They have financed this growth in their assets through increased liabilities such as commercial-bank reserves, swaps with central banks and other ways of printing money.

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Even with so many companies rising to prominence, the dream of truly mainstream 3D printing still feels a ways off -- if that is indeed where we're inevitably heading.

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The growing field is credited with recently saving a baby's life by allowing the speedy manufacturing of medical devices to keep his air passages open, and NASA is exploring ways of using 3-D printing to provide food to astronauts.

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While that remains years, or decades, in the future, 3D printing is already affecting travellers in other, less-obvious ways.

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