the way I view this
inflation=cause
devalue=effect
That makes perfect sense in a scholarly economic way-- a great theory for a PhD. Then when when folks like me point that it don't work that way in real life--
--then you can simply respond like a typical economics scholar saying "well! that's all well and good for some fancy real life but how are your ideas going to survive when it comes down to hard cold theory?" Related article: Even the Top Economists Are Bad Investors - Ike Brannon,Weekly Standard