In qualche modo potranno forse riuscire, dopo alcuni di questi tracolli, a varare una nuova moneta e far digerire alla popolazione mondiale gli squilibri attuali attraverso un bel periodo di catarsi.

Yet for the moment, even as manifestations of inflation intensify, the popular wisdom is that commodities have been in a bubble phase. Nobody is worried about the integrity of money. Nobody sees well-publicized financial upheavals as propelling the flight out of money; rather, economic gurus argue that safety lies in holding cash or bonds.
The latter remain strong and it's still the mortgage/sub-prime/Bear Stearns/hedge fund stuff that makes the headlines. Soon enough it will be derivatives, and then perhaps people will grasp that this is a money problemmore than anything else.
In fact the monetary system is moving into its death throes. Back in the early 1960s, when the first cracks in Bretton Woods and the US dollar appeared, the predecessors to the G7 cooked up the General Agreement to Borrow (GAB) with a whopping $6 billion aid package. Another innovation that was supposed to solve the world's problems was the introduction of Special Drawing Rights (advertised as "paper gold").We all seek refuge somewhere. Bond guys cannot believe stocks, gold guys think that "gold in the ground" is undervalued, and financial services guys are in shock. The hyperinflation guys (that's us) cannot believe bonds but see the resilience in solid stocks and commodities as a perfectly logical flight out of money. Strong manufacturers with sophisticated assets and proprietary
wealth (such as P&G or CAT) will thrive and prosper, along with resources, long after the money is gone.
Gold, the real thing, will probably outperform most shares.

wealth (such as P&G or CAT)

...To deal with his economic problems, Mugabe decided to crank up the printing presses and create the money needed to pay the bills. As his economy collapsed, the massive money-printing scheme only helped to speed the descent. When you print money by the boat load, then drop it by helicopters into the economy, there can only be one probable result—hyperinflation. All existing money in circulation rapidly became worthless. People’s life savings were destroyed, the cost of bananas and toothpaste soared into the thousands, and businesses could no longer function. Zimbabwe, once the crown jewel of Africa, became a basket case...
The lesson for America is that we are traveling a similarly precarious course...
A society grows rich by producing things … and saving money. There is no other way. Cheaper credit won’t do it. More consumption won’t help. Printing money—and dumping it from helicopters—is a losing proposition...
But America has already embarked on a money-printing scheme of historic proportions. U.S. money supply, as measured by M3, is expanding at a yearly rate of almost 18 percent. That is a rate probably not seen since the war years...
And there are signs that all the money creation is beginning to affect prices. Check out these recent headlines from Bloomberg, Reuters and the Dallas Morning News.
Oil Rises Above $101 to Record on Increased Demand, Rate Cuts
Gold, Silver Futures Rebound on Demand for Inflation Hedge
New York Bond Costs Rise as Banks Let Auctions Fail
Electricity Prices Likely to Rise, Experts Say
U.S. Economy: Housing Slump Fails to Quell Inflation
Chips, Beer Off the Grocery List as Inflation Bites
Foodmakers Squeezed by Costs, Strapped Consumers
Creating money out of thin air may temporarily stimulate an economy, but as history clearly shows, the medicine is eventually worse than the disease. The end is always the same—a worthless currency, a destroyed economy and a bankrupt nation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bernanke
Ben Bernanke
In 2002, when the word "deflation" began appearing in the business news, Bernanke gave a speech about deflation.[12] In that speech, he mentioned that the government in a fiat money system owns the physical means of creating money. Control of the means of production for money implies that the government can always avoid deflation by simply issuing more money. (He referred to a statement made by Milton Friedman about using a "helicopter drop" of money into the economy to fight deflation.) Bernanke's critics have since referred to him as "Helicopter Ben" or to his "helicopter printing press". In a footnote to his speech, Bernanke noted that "people know that inflation erodes the real value of the government's debt and, therefore, that it is in the interest of the government to create some inflation