{"id":68389,"date":"2024-05-27T17:41:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T22:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68389"},"modified":"2024-05-27T17:41:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T22:41:16","slug":"is-hyper-inflation-that-destroys-a-currency-a-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68389","title":{"rendered":"Is Hyper-Inflation that Destroys a Currency a “Solution”?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Is Hyper-Inflation that Destroys a Currency a “Solution”?<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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This contrarian sees a strong consensus around the notion that hyper-inflation is the inevitable end-game of nation-states \/ central banks issuing fiat currencies<\/strong>, i.e. currencies that are not restrained by being pegged to tangible assets such as gold reserves. The temptation to issue (via “printing” or borrowing new currency into existence by selling sovereign bonds) more currency becomes irresistible to politicians and central bankers alike. as the means to mollify every constituency, from elites to the military to commoners dependent on state-funded\u00a0bread and circuses<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This unrestrained creation of new money far in excess of the expansion of goods and services (i.e. the real economy) devalues the currency, as “all the new money chases too few goods and services.” Gresham’s law kicks in–bad money drives good money out of circulation<\/em>–as precious metals, fine art, gemstones, etc. are hoarded and the depreciating currency is spent as fast as possible before its\u00a0purchasing power<\/em>\u00a0declines even further.<\/p>\n

The Cotillion Effect<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0also kicks in<\/strong>: those closest to the spigot of new money get first dibs on converting the depreciating currency into tangible goods, leaving the non-elites to sweep up the “trickle-down” shreds left as the currency loses\u00a0purchasing power<\/em>\u00a0daily.<\/p>\n

The consensus holds that there is no way to stop this decay of\u00a0<\/strong>purchasing power<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0to near-zero, i.e. hyper-inflation, once it starts.<\/strong>\u00a0As in a Greek tragedy, the fatal flaw of the protagonist–in this case, fiat currency–leads inevitably to its destruction.<\/p>\n

In the real world, things having to do with money tend to occur because they benefit powerful interests.<\/strong>\u00a0This leads us to ask of hyper-inflation:\u00a0cui bono<\/em>, to whose benefit? Exactly which powerful interests benefit when a currency’s purchasing power plummets to near-zero?<\/p>\n

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Is Hyper-Inflation that Destroys a Currency a “Solution”? This contrarian sees a strong consensus around the notion that hyper-inflation is the inevitable end-game of nation-states \/ central banks issuing fiat currencies, i.e. currencies that are not restrained by being pegged to tangible assets such as gold reserves. The temptation to issue (via “printing” or borrowing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4365,124,24078,195,309,413,647,13351],"class_list":["post-68389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-borrowing","tag-central-banks","tag-charles-hugh-smith-2","tag-debt","tag-fiat-currency","tag-hyperinflation","tag-precious-metals","tag-price-inflation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68390,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68389\/revisions\/68390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}