Inflation only happens if the government prints money it doesn't have. When the money is based on nothing, this is easy to do. Back in the old days of the gold standard or silver standard (in the case of England), the government couldn't print money because people were free to demand the value of currency in bullion. The government had to have the tin to issue the paper. I wonder why we don't move back onto a precious metal standard? I wonder why we ever left it? Hmmmm. Could it, perhaps, have something to do with Jews? I believe it might.