Inflation and soft money is a sin. It is immoral to intentionally dilute the value of money. Diluting money breaks the eighth commandment by stealing or defrauding others. Leviticus 19:35 states, "You shall do no injustice in judgment, in measurement of length, weight, or volume." Inflation tends to redistribute wealth in the hands of a few rich who own assets on credit and hurt the poor on fixed income and savers. After the U.S. removed the gold backing from money, the dollar became fiat money, or paper declared money by government decree.
Total public and private debt in the U.S. expanded from $1 trillion in 1964 to $67 trillion currently. Public debt is approaching $22 trillion, and there is also $46 trillion in unfunded liabilities for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. When the Chicago Board of Trade allowed cash settlement on commodities contracts it opened the door for gambling on such items as currencies, interest rates, and stock market volatility. A decade after the crash of 2008 U.S. banks have a notional exposure of $600 trillion in derivative contracts. Banks measure their exposure based on net risk if they have a short and long position. However, during financial crisis, if counter parties fail, net risk can become a notional or uncovered risk overnight. Derivatives do not spread risk, they multiply it and concentrate it with a few big banks. The next collapse will not be stopped by government, because it will be larger than governments.
By rejecting God revealed in Scripture and by embracing naturalistic materialism, the modern mind has no grounds for holding to any ethical standard or reason for esteeming "virtue" over "vice". Keynesian economics provides intellectual rationale for rejecting the Christian virtue of saving and deferring present consumption. Keynes promoted excessive extravagance. The United States has become a prodigal son.
