US bonds are priced in USD. If the USD is expected to collapse (if at all) if and only if the US bonds collapse, what would you see in the prices?
What I wonder is, how is inflation being calculated in terms of the CPI, which is essentially prices in dollars? After all, what exactly is being measured by this? If dollars the very currency which is being printed, how does measuring prices account for how much M0 money there is?
Purchasing power of Americans.
>how does measuring prices account for how much M0 money there is?
Why does it need to? On its own, the amount of M0 is irrelevant. We care about how the effects of supply manifest in prices.