And inflation is necessary to make the debt smaller because future dollars are worth less, so waiting decades to pay it off means they pay out less for it in real terms.

If we owed 1 billion Zimbabwe Dollars, just waiting for the hyper-inflation 2007/8 would mean we could "pay off" that 1B for a fraction of it in real terms.

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