Quote from local_crusher:
If you think, economics is the only driving force for inflation, you have no idea. Imagine the following scenario:
- GDP, lending slowly begins to recover
- CPI/PPI rise
- Central Banks around the globe now would need to raise rates.
But guess, they will not.
They will keep rates at zero levels for years, no matter what the economy does, in order not to endanger fiscal stability for the government(s).
This alone will spur an inflation spiral.
Inflation will hit just as the market collapse did. It will be things going along and BOOM! a rapid spiraling upward inflation out of now where. Just as fast as the property bubble came and went.
Anyone sitting on cash will watch its purchasing power evaporate over the course of one or two years.
Debt on the balance sheet guess what happens to it with hyper inflation.
Companies with capital assets and who do a good part of business outside the US will do very well especially if they have cash-flow and debt they acquired and sitting on the balance sheet paying low rates.