That kind of 100,000% inflation will not happen imho. Today's developed world has enough productivity to keep the basic/moderate living standard at any time. The problem now is that 20/30/40 yrs's wealth accumulated in saving acct/investment acct/pension acct/retirement acct in the form of dollar/bond/general equities is going to be sacrificed by the gov's currency devaluation as the only solution to uncontrollable debts, and the only way to protect the life savings is to buy gold and solid gold producer stocks. JMT.