….Systemic Austerity and Individual Monetary Scarcity Inflation. Money is NOT the operant factor in inflation. It is the lack of a better, more rational and beneficial alternative to commercial agents raising their prices when they see more money coming into a system chronically scarce in individual income and hence business revenue. Remedy that situation with a universal dividend and a 50% discount/rebate policy at the point of retail sale….and you’ll be deserving of a Nobel Prize in economics.