The Dollar, Inflation, and Deflation
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The policies of the politicians have been to inflate, inflate, and inflate some more. And they have been quite successful in doing that. Since the Federal Reserve was created in 1913, the dollar has lost something like 97% of is purchasing power. So the boys controlling the printing presses have done quite well in their creation of deflation, except for a period of time in the 1930s when the purchasing power rose considerably.
The question in my mind is not whether the Fed and other policymakers will try to inflate. Indeed I think they will.
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