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This is a link post A handy infographic guide to inflation
Someone on here last week was asking why we can't just print more money to boost the economy. This simple guide explains inflation and in turn, explains why printing money is bad.

Not funny or clever, but interesting to anyone who doesn't understand inflation and why we keep (economically) shooting ourselves in the foot.
 (I helped save b3ta! Damocles wants no part of your debauchery, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 15:01, , Reply)
This is a normal post Infofactage!

(I helped save b3ta! thecrapgatsby isn't listening LALALALALALA, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 15:26, , Reply)
This is a normal post Pretty Good
I have a bank of Zimbabwe 100 trillion dollar note, just so I can Say I'm an excentric multi trillionaire.

although it only cost me 80p :)
 (Andy-Bhoy I'm here all week, try the veal., Tue 15 Feb 2011, 15:27, , Reply)
This is a normal post I really liked this.
I knew what inflation was, but hadn't really thought through three causes before.

This link is both interesting, and nicely designed. Blimey.
 (I helped save b3ta! prince-igor si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 15:30, , Reply)
This is a normal post I learned something
Didn't expect that. It never occurred to me that inflation could be good if you owed money.
 (I helped save b3ta! evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 15:47, , Reply)
This is a normal post That was the bit I kind of questioned...
...because although it would be good for your debt, it would still make your salary worth less, in terms of how much you could buy.

Inflation always buggers the least well paid most, as their mass-agreed salaries don't "catch up" fast enough, as opposed to those in suits who can normally go and knock on the big cheeses' doors and ask for more...
 (I helped save b3ta! prince-igor si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 16:00, , Reply)
This is a normal post what was athet Mayer Rothschild quote?
"give me control fo a nations money and I care not who makes the laws"

central banks lend to the government and charge interest, which is interesting when you consider a nation has the capacity to print its own currency and issue without debt. Nationalised or privately owned? makes you wonder. The '77 BOE Act makes finding out who the shareholders of the bank of england a state secret apparently when they created the BOE nominees ltd. The '98 BOE act passed by Brown was even more interesting.

that's all I'm going to say on the subject
 (I helped save b3ta! Clay hopes this bit is long enough to promote my websi, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 15:47, , Reply)
This is a normal post Still dont get it.
Surely if 'they' printed enough money for everyone to have a million quid, we'd all be millionaires and not need to work or starve.
 (I helped save b3ta! acab, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 15:55, , Reply)
This is a normal post I like your thinking
'they' have made it so everytime they print money they lend it with attached debt. So what happens when there is not enough money in circulation to cover the debt, if every time they issue it they attach debt to it? the debtor pays with real world asets like property and labour. they print paper and collect payment via assets. genius
 (I helped save b3ta! Clay hopes this bit is long enough to promote my websi, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 16:01, , Reply)
This is a normal post I have chosen...
...to decide you are being funny.

If not, try exchanging your savings into Zimbabwean (or even something less dramatic but higher denomenation like Turkish) currency, and tell me if you suddenly feel like Roman Abramovich. Money isn't worth anything in itself, only in what you can exchange it for.
 (I helped save b3ta! prince-igor si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 16:03, , Reply)
This is a normal post Bank notes
aren't even money. They are just fancy IOUs.
 (I helped save b3ta! TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 16:17, , Reply)
This is a normal post Worse than that...
They are exchangable and tradable IOUs from the Bank of England.

Those buggers are more in debt than any of us, and they don't even know who to!

*shakes fist in anger*
 (I helped save b3ta! prince-igor si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 16:32, , Reply)
This is a normal post I'm gonna try it

(I helped save b3ta! acab, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 16:22, , Reply)
This is a normal post
good news for those of us riddled with student debt
 (thequailboy, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 16:24, , Reply)
This is a normal post Student debt?
Cheapest debt you'll ever have.
 (I helped save b3ta! evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 17:25, , Reply)
This is a normal post Not really
Student debt tracks to inflation (with a few quirks when the inflation measure they use approaches 0), so you're in theory always owing the same amount in real terms.
 (I helped save b3ta! Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Tue 15 Feb 2011, 18:02, , Reply)
This is a normal post bloody excellent
great find
 (I helped save b3ta! Avast is still alive!!!!, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 16:32, , Reply)
This is a normal post so....
can't we just burn some money?

Obviously not mine, I haven't got enough to make a decent fire...
 (MrChimp previously Monsieur, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 19:05, , Reply)