Nate,
Thanks, that very interesting, if those derivatives are not hedged or poorly hedged it's easy to see big financial problems quickly developing.

Hi guys,

Nate, I'm on your side. Japan's been "printing money" for almost 20 years now and know nothing of inflation. The deleveraging continues. It will take a long long time for paper money to catch up with "digital" money, especially with the demographic and peakoily situation.

Welcome to Kondratieff winter. Like in Narnia maybe a winter that will never end...
Well, will take a while to be played out:-(

Cheers, Dom

a 0% interest rate isn't printing money.

while true
do
 let MONEY = $MONEY + ($MONEY * $N)
done

Choose your value for N. Inflation can always be made to win in a fiat system. All it takes is for someone to stand up and say "I am going to make your money worthless.", then actually start doing it.

"0% interest rate"
You're refering to Japan, right?

You're right, hyperinflation sounds so *easy*, but...

Please explain how to add money to the system in order to create price inflation (central bank / treasury). Why isn't it working right now?

Where did your $MONEY come from to multiply with inflation ($N)??

Fiat is not Fiat, meaning, it is not just "printed" without obligation. Instead, it is "borrowed" into existence. In the (Central Bank's) books "new" money looks like this:
Debit = Credit

Looking at your equation let's define:

$MoneyB + $NewDebt = $MoneyA + $NewMoney

Now, like a good Enron, wie act like we don't have any debt or say that our debt is part of the economy too and redefine: $MoneyB = $MoneyA + $NewMoney + $NewDebt, which will end in bankrupcy if there's no wealth behind that new debt. But that's not our question right now.

What we like to do in our economy is forget that the new debt ever has to be paid back:

$MoneyB = $MoneyA + $NewMoney

If this were the case, then inflation would be easy to produce. Then your equation could make sense. But what's happening now is not only new debt but also "deleveraging" ($DebtRepaid) and/or "defaulting" ($DebtDefault). Meaning:

$NewMoney = $NewDebt - $DebtDefault&Repaid
meaning:
$MoneyB = $MoneyA + $NewDebt - $DebtDefault&Repaid

Which tells me that inflation will ONLY occur if we make more debt than what is being defaulted and deleveraged.

Or is there a fault in my logic?

Cheers, Dom