Inflation in EU?

[Akoz]

The prices in EU has been steadily increasing since long before the game went gold. The real question imo is if it's still justified.

People were considered to be out of their minds paying the same for a virtual weapon as they did for their computer. The fear then was mostly that MA would go bancrupt (again) so they would loose it. Today the same item sells for 20 times more. I believe most of the price increase so far has actually been justifiable simply because many of these items can generate enough peds or decrease the loss sufficiently. The danger comes when items are bought at high prices only because people rely on them being able to sell for the same or more later on. An imk2 can only save you so much money per day. At some point you would get more money back from just putting your money in the bank and collecting the annual interests (and buy a comparable dmg/sec weapon to use). I believe we have both reached and surpassed that point for many items in this game.
Is the bubble going to burst?
Is it not naive to think that things can keep going up forever? Shouldn't the real question be when it's going to burst? An interesting factor here is of course the way MA interacts with the economy to push it in the right direction. But will that save it?