Quote from peilthetraveler:
High prices are a result of inflation. The inflation is already here. When you increase the money supply, thats inflation. Takes a while for the prices to catch up.
But the reason we havent seen inflation in prices is because inflation right now is just stopping the prices from going down. If the government hadnt been spending so much money, Gas would probably be 70 cents per gallon, milk 98 cents per gallon, bread 40 cents per gallon ect. With prices that low, profits would be low, layoffs would be 10x worse than now and people that owe debt would not be able to pay, which would cause defaults like crazy, which would cause a further deflationary spiral.
Right now, the inflation is just balancing out the deflation. The genie is already out of the bottle. You WILL see it by this time next year.