We Will Be Told Hyperinflation is Necessary, Proper, Patriotic, and Ethical

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Ludwig von Mises Institute :

We Will Be Told Hyperinflation is Necessary, Proper, Patriotic, and Ethical

 

Mises Daily: Monday, January 13, 2014 by Patrick Barron

 

Hyperinflation leads to the complete breakdown in the demand for a currency, which means simply that no one wishes to hold it. Everyone wants to get rid of that kind of money as fast as possible. Prices, denominated in the hyper-inflated currency, suddenly and dramatically go through the roof. The most famous examples, although there are many others, are Germany in the early 1920s and Zimbabwe just a few years ago. German Reichsmarks and Zim dollars were printed in million and even trillion unit denominations.

 

We may scoff at such insanity and assume that America could never suffer from such an event. We are modern. We know too much. Our monetary leaders are wise and have unprecedented power to prevent such an awful outcome.

 

Think again.

 

Our monetary leaders do not understand the true nature of money and banking; thus, they advocate monetary expansion as the cure for every economic ill.