It's really funny to talk about the government making or losing money when producing money ("seigniorage"). It really shows how money is just pretend numbers and the foundries can create or destroy it at will depending on the political winds (inflation being good for debtors and deflation being good for creditors). There's a reason the monied interests are against inflation of more than 2%, and it's because it would cause the debts logged as assets in their books to be worth less. Honestly, they would prefer deflation, but they were forced to accept some inflation as the cost of a growing economy.