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To: Trumptown who wrote (384730)	4/23/2009 3:47:19 PM
From: Real Man	Respond to of 436258

It's quite common in fiat world, but it seems some sort of devastation by war is needed to turn inflation into hyperinflation. That, or a corrupt government. We have the latter, and it may be a civil war -ng- High inflation happened to Japan too, post WWII, and a buck still buys 100 yen. -g- en.wikipedia.org In Germany your house was Free, but all you made was spent on food, and it was not enough. Getting paid a few times a day is a signature of hyperinflation. On a brighter side, a currency can lose 4 zeroes in 5 years without ever going to that extreme. Then the DOW would only go to 8,000,000, as opposed to 8,000,000,000,000,000. -g- Coming back here, the Fed pledged to triple the monetary base, but somehow I am not at all sure they will ever stop printing!