OMG this is the stupid that will not die

There is no inflation problem. The spike that you saw in December was a material supply shortage due to some changes that happened in the drone lands.

Inflation is not, has not and never ******* will be a problem in this MMO.

People have been crying "OMG TEH inflation!!" for as long as I've played this game and so far except for some material supply issues caused by CCP tinkering with various resource inputs and manufacturing requirements prices have remained stable or dropped.

Don't you think it's kind of strange that prices remained flat for the entire rest of the year? People have been running incursions that entire friggin time but somehow we're supposed to think that some magical ******* tipping point was finally reached in December

Really? Don't you think that if there were an inflation problem due to isk inputs that you would have seen a steady increase in prices as that isk accumulated in the economy

ISK is not a fiat currency! It is a highly portable commodity that is harvested by shooting NPCs. If that commodity is devalued by over supply you'll see people moving to other activities and things will balance out. As isk levels increase demand for other products will increase which will bump prices which will encourage people to activate idle production assets. Hell prices on minerals or Ice get bumped enough and I've got 4 toons that could be out mining tomorrow.

Remember the only reason inflation is a problem in the real world is sticky wages, if wages adjusted automatically with inflation it would never be an issue. They don't which is why it causes pain in the real economy. I'm not going to spend forever explaining this read through my posting history and you'll see multiple explanations of this.

Wages are not sticky in EVE people can increase their wages simply by moving to the more lucrative activities or baring that into supplying resources for those who do engage in those activities. They don't have to talk their boss into a raise they don't have to interview for a new job or go take a certification course or convince someone to give them a chance because the position requires experience but the only way to get experience is to get a position

No you inject a skill book or two invest in some capital assets and set to making your fortune.

Also it's generally better for the isk to flow easily and freely. It's mainly psychological but people tend to be more optimistic and less risk adverse when they feel like they are making more money. Higher bounties means bears who are more willing to buy those fancy faction modules that the Null sec crowd sell to buy their fancy PVP ships. And it's just a fact that a person making 100mil an hour is going to be looser with their money than someone making 10mil an hour or 1 mil an hour

Finally never forget that isk supply is not the sole determiner of inflation, Inflation is a factor of currency supply relative to the production of the economy. Just because your currency supply is increasing does not automatically equal inflation. If your productivity is increasing faster you'll actually end up with deflation. And unlike the real world the only limit on production in EVE is time. Belts replenish, rats respawn, and you can always find new planets to PI on. So as isk increases it simply increases the insentive to go out and harvest/create other resouces