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.