I like math. It tends to separate viable intellect from evolved incompetence...

Besides, it takes a discerning mind to tolerate the limits of apes.

I can't tell the difference between capitalism and profiteering anymore...
How do you govern without a set reference?
Without a set standard, "Whatever the market will bear" becomes the goal.

Inflation is how the stock market makes money.
Then, there's the Global Federal Reserve...

Governments print their own currency, then tell the world what their money is worth based upon their economy (corporate government) and calculations/projections made by the Global Federal Reserve (the world bank).

In this equation... the actual worth of goods and services is never considered.
THERE IS NO SET UNIVERSAL STANDARD.
Profit accrued through interest rates and inflation is the only goal.

If a loaf of bread was always worth $1, a pair of jeans was always $5, an 8'2x4 was always $1, an apple was always worth $0.25, iron/steel were always $0.1 per/lb, a beef cow was always worth $500... these things would set a stabilizing standard and reference for the rest of free market commerce. Small "home-grown" businesses wouldn't have to compete with global corporations. Necessity would truly be the mother of invention and the heart of entrepreneurism.

Currently, capitalism and profiteering are the same thing. As long as governments around the globe keep enslaving their populations, then take credit for national productivity despite abysmal standards of living... inflation will never end. Wealth inequality will only get worse as long as the subjugated fear their masters.

Maintaining fear is a simple matter of controlling both money and information...

By the way,
It's the apes that pound their chests, howl, then run and hide in the trees...

I only see one party in this current political race acting that way.