Why you can’t always inflate away debt.

Posted: April 18th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

Inflating away debt only works when the obligations are in fixed dollar amounts, like a mortgage. But essentially, all of our long-term fiscal problems are entitlement commitments that grow (are “indexed”) with inflation. When inflation rises, spending on Social Security and Medicare rise at the same rate. So the debt-inflation relationship is the opposite of the get-out-of-jail-free card some envision. Debt still goes up in real dollar terms, creating even more of a death spiral.

Why the U.S. Can’t Inflate Its Way Out of Debt

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