It would be quite a challenge to keep it going perpetually, because the fiat currency we now use is faith-based. Hyperinflation always kicks in when money is created at an exponential rate, whether that be on a printing press, or even worse, by typing numbers into a computer. Keep in mind that any growth rate greater than zero is exponential. Once the value of a currency falls fast enough, people lose all faith in it, and its value will suddenly collapse to zero when people refuse to accept it.Posted by majapahit (here)
what you say here I see common place on many fora
.. unfortunately, I am afraid this is not the case
it is hard to explain, and many run-of-the-mill economists arent even aware that there might be a problem, especially since - western - economists are trained, that the chairman for the FED is god ..
but if Bernanke would want such to happen ..
he could keep the present semi-status quo of quantitative easing going .. perpetually
I really don't think we will see quantitative easing continue much longer. The debt is entering the vertical part of the exponential graph, and the money that must be created to pay off that debt is by necessity on the same track. Inflation by necessity is also on the same track. All are about to explode numerically. The end of faith in the dollar is near.