Shocking reports have come from the Aylorian College of Economics that Aardwolf is about to reach an inflationary cliff. Due to the rapidly increasing balances of tier bank accounts, Aardwolf is facing critical inflation problem that threatens the foundations of the economy. In response, Lasher is expected to implement a gold devaluation program after the first of the year that would cut all bank accounts in half while raising shopkeeper prices by two-thirds. If not stemmed now, the rising inflation is expected to cripple the buying power of anyone who is not a t9 and/or a bot, forcing these players to beg or resort to prostitution in order to buy essential items.

Professor Arthur Skilliwag, Chief Economist of the Aylorian College of Economics, had the following remarks. "For too many years this gold problem has been ignored and inflation continues to creep up and up. As more people reach higher tiers, the worse it gets. Everyone now has too much money to spend and not enough sinks, gold sinks that is."  Professor Skilliwag then added, "when Aardwolf goes over the cliff, we’re talking in terms of a dead sprint and flying leap, and none of this ‘peek your head over and accidently slip’ nonsense."

Not "When Aardwolf goes over the cliff, we’re talking in terms of a dead sprint and flying leap, and none of this ‘peek your head over and accidently slip’ nonsense."since 1999 has Aardwolf seen such drastic actions taken, when all gold was reduced to one-tenth of the original amount. This deflationary event occurred simultaneously with Fufa becoming the first player to reach tier 2. Experts believe these events were connected as it is generally accepted that tiers are ruining the MUD.

Subtle signs have existed for years of this looming crisis, but they largely went unnoticed by the majority of the population. The collectors market in particular has seen a huge spike in price. "When you see a t0 r3 buying level 251 eq for tens of millions of gold, you a problem," stated Professor Skilliwag. "These same items were selling for under 3,000,000 gold only two years ago, so you’re talking about a six-fold increase in prices during that time. That’s incredible."

When questioned about the relative stabilization of the cost of trivia point tokens, Professor Skilliwag demurred and muttered something about "those daily blessings."

The Aylorian College of Economics is recommending that people remove their gold and place their savings in healing potions as a hedge against the devaluation.