You are, one again, just factually wrong. The Germans eliminated the gold standard prior to the war. The Weimar Republic paper mark was not tied to gold, and they chose to repay their reparations by printing marks to buy foreign currency they could then use to pay the debt. This caused their hyperinflation. Similarly, but not in exactly the same way, one option available to us is to print dollars to pay our debt. The result will be the same, though it will take a lot more debt for us to cause a rout in the debt market (as Dimon and many other have recently explained).Except you are fundamentally (economically) wrong about what happened to the Weimar Republic and why the current situation is vastly different. To start with, the Germans were wracked with war reparation payments and those payments (in kind and in cash) were linked to gold. As gold prices shifted the Germans found themselves paying continuously higher prices to provision the mark thus redefining its currency downward. That kind of neoclassical global financing was done away with after the Bretton Woods conference after WWII.
What you are explaining is a difference in magnitude, not a difference in kind. IE, us creating a much larger supply of dollars will have the same result as when the Germans, Argentinians, Zimbabweans, or many other countries have experienced. The only difference is in how much debt we can get away with first.The problem with the Wiemar Republic comparisons is that the US dollar is much, much, much stronger than the German Mark ever was. It is why comparing the monetary policy of, say, Argentina to the U.S. is a non-starter.
Every single person who has predicted hyperinflation (and there are a lot of them in the conservative political & media circles) has been wrong.
When will you be alarmed? When our interest payments each year are $2 trillion? 4 trillion? At some point, without huge and painful change, we will reach it.