Quote from Avid_Consumer:
you said doubling cash would be accompanied by doubling prices. what difference do you have in mind wrt to money supply vs cash?
i was using them interchangeably for the purposes of this conv, though of course they're definitely not the same thing. the point i was getting in your stock analogy was that splitting is preferable to dilution, (in the context of ever declining purchasing power)
well most obviously, splitting doesn't screw existing shareholders while dilution does. I guess money supply does have a splitting analogy though. When currencies get devalued (pesos, etc) to the point where a minimum multiple is 100, it goes thru a 'reverse split', a la 100:1 to get it back to countable denominations of value.