[arthurus]

Given that no U.S. government will want to join the ranks of history’s sovereign deadbeats, the inflation option remains the most likely course.

Inflation is a different name for deadbeatery but it is deadbeatery all the same. It just stretches out the process a bit.

[2001convSVT]

And, it spreads that pain around by degrading every ones wealth (except for people holding gold, silver and land).