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> The debt to gdp ratio is higher than it’s ever been.

Have a look at Japan:

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DEBTTLJPA188A

Japan's inflation:

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FPCPITOTLZGJPN

There was only one published paper that I'm aware that had any debt-GDP-inflation link (Reinhart-Rogoff) and it was retracted:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt