On 10 February, wire services reported that the then interim finance minister Piyush Goyal favoured “printing currency” as a mode of deficit finance, approvingly citing the example of the US. “As finance ministers we are always in need of money,” Goyal said. He added, “I have heard that the US does deficit financing only by printing currency,” a canard that …

There is a lot of that has been put into 3D technology in the last decade. This is especially so when it comes to the printing service. You can now access a 3D printer with more ease than you would have some five years ago. The devices continue to become better with each passing day and more efficient in their …