eli5: If a 2% inflation is considered good and healthy, will this not at some point cause abnormally high money values or a currency crash?

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eli5: If a 2% inflation is considered good and healthy, will this not at some point cause abnormally high money values or a currency crash?

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Abnormal is relative. Many currencies have higher sticker prices compared to USD/CAD/GBP/EUR that seem abnormal to countries using USD.
Crashes are inevitable in a system left to markets with little oversight or input, but also as a social phenomena, subject to perception. Tldr; If inflation is slow, people don’t freak out and cause a crash.