One of the unspoken issues goes to the nature of capitalism, in that as a medium of exchange, money is a contract, with one side and asset and the other a debt, but we are indoctrinated to the premise of it as a commodity to save and store.

Consequently, in order to “save” the asset side, similar amounts of debt have to be created and so the government borrows surplus money back out of the economy. Where would those trillions go, otherwise? Derivatives? Apple stock?

Then much of it gets poured into the burn pit of the military, so we are blowing up other countries as a side effect of saving surplus money.

Econ 101 says it is both medium of exchange and store of value, yet in the body, blood is the medium and fat is the store, or for cars, roads are the medium and parking lots are the store.

Would doctors or highway engineers confuse them? The field of economics is to science what tobacco funded research is to health studies.