But inflation is breath, i.e., spirit. Money begins as half spirit half material, a doorway between worlds.
Banking appears as a kind of alchemy, making wealth out of credit, something out of nothing.
And the whole process can be summed up by the US dollar bill, a virtual crypto-text on the aethereal nature of money. This is the future. This is the Millennium. Money, though always based on trust, demands some material presence. Humans go back and forth on money's proper ingredients.