The government creates the money and makes 97% profit on each electronic dollar it creates, which is called seigniorage.
All legal US paper money is woven from cotton and flax in Dalton, Massachusetts at a company called Crane Paper, which is next to Berkshire Hathaway, (Berkshire Cotton Mill) which was next to Arnold Print Works, (Print Works Drive) which printed designs on cloth.
Apple Inc. is considered the most successful corporation because it has a market capitalization of $3.7 trillion.
Market capitalization is the value of a corporation's outstanding stock shares.
The US Treasury has sold $28 trillion worth of securities in June, 2025, making its market capitalization as the most successful producer of money 7 times larger than the most successful corporation in the world.
The US dollar is strong compared to other currencies such as Canada's dollar and Australia's dollar.
Canada and Australia have healthy credit ratings from the 3 major credit rating agencies.
Inflation in the US, Australia and Canada has been about the same over the last 5 years, with Canada's rate hitting 6.8% in 2022 when the US's hit 8.0%. Australia's inflation rate hit 6.59%.
The US dollar remained healthy compared to Canada's and Australia's during this period, though the US allegedly had higher inflation rates.
Social Security is stored in trust funds made up of US government securities. You can invest in them when they open the sales of public issue securities, but special issues are only sold to the Treasury Department when the Federal Government needs money. The Treasury Department redeems them (cashes them in) to fund the federal budget, then later buys back the securities to re-fund Social Security.
The Bureau of Printing and Engraving and the US Mint are part of the Treasury Department which re-funds the Social Security Trust Fund Special Issues after the federal government uses them, and redeems (cashes in) the special issue Treasury Securities when the government needs money to balance the Federal Budget.
The US Social Security Trust Funds are backed by the 'full faith and credit of the US government', which creates all of the nation's money.
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"Even if Congress allowed the trust fund to become depleted, the large majority of scheduled benefits would still be payable on time and the obligation to make the scheduled payments would not change."
- SSA PDF Link on Blogger 'Current state of social security operations and the trust funds'
'The Treasury needs to borrow money when the federal government’s budget is in a deficit, meaning its spending exceeds revenues from taxes and other sources.'
- KARE 11
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