RE:RE:RE:RE:Inflation For your benefit... you may want to zoom out and take a look at the sovereigns themselves... countries finance their exiesting debt and deficits by issuing bonds. Therefore, they issue bonds roughly equal to the annual deficit PLUS all the maturing bonds that they need to repay (they pay back debt with new debt). The latter point being the most important, as debt rolls, it is renewing at interest rates 2x - 3x of the maturing debt. Therefore, interest as a % of GDP has begun to soar. Canada and US both have debt to GDP above 100%... the US is expected to hit $1 TRILLION in interest expense this year. The interest expense is added to the debt and therefore MORE debt needs to be issued to finance the debt and the deficit. As you can see it is a debt spiral. So although I don't disagree with you in the short-term, I would encourage you take a step back and take a look at the sovereign level. When governments bail out corporations, this is where it goes... this is the ultimate can we have kicked down the road - we are running out of road. Cheers.