Inflation is always and ever a monetary phenomenon, but it is also a political one.
Once money or currency becomes untethered to any kind of standard or objective unit of account it is simply a matter of time. Monetary Inflation is a default, but it is spread out over time, and favors certain classes, namely the first people who get their hands on it to spend it.
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Congress spends like Crazy.
They sure aren’t concerned about anything Debt related.
They can’t tell you where half of it goes.
Rampant inflation is a natural phenomenon in a society built on the delusion that everyone has a God-given right to a standard of living they can’t afford.