By assets increasing in value I was referring to currency, not the cost of commodities. In your story, I would attribute the $25 a loaf bread to the credit pan

By assets increasing in value I was referring to currency, not the cost of commodities. In your story, I would attribute the $25 a loaf bread to the credit panic, not the resultant of a consumers increase in purchasing power -- such as the expected deflation in BitCoins.