[ex-snook]

Inflation is the way a country pays the cost of war and social Ponzi schemes. We have been in wars for a 100 years and Ponzi schemes for 75.

[Daisyjane69]

The best column I’ve read, illustrating your very point:

http://www.321gold.com/editorials/price/price102909.html

The theme is “Time to end WW II”