How Debasing Money Debases Society
"Prices don't simply inform buyers and sellers in a particular transaction; they also provide information that producers and consumers throughout an economy use to make decisions..."The prices and profits facilitated by money are what allow a market economy to provide for the needs of society. When money is made artificially unstable by government, the information it provides ends up being corrupted. Both producers and consumers respond to distorted market signals. The end results are gluts, shortages, or market bubbles."