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1/ Sidetracked into MMT since a bunch of you were fans, and Harvey’s book got…
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2/ Only barely through the introduction and the start of chapter 1, but it got …
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3/ The reason that I had to post is that she started talking about this questio…
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4/ She literally says: “and they need to refrain from borrowing, that is taki…
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5/ So maybe we’ll get a glimpse into this mechanism. Unfortunately, we have s…
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@Patricia presumably not an option for smaller countries with untrusted currenc…
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@ahrkrak that is the problem, the rich countries can erase their debts, but poo…
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@Patricia In Germany economic thought is dominated by the socalled ordoliberals…
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@wackJackle I don’t know what “ordoliberalism” is 😅
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@Patricia This is a good enough summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordolibe…
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@wackJackle I guess this is a form of capitalism sort of?
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@cpm I guess I’m afraid for the future, it feels like we’re all in a car dr…
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@Patricia @cpm I find a key concept in understanding this mess is the Abilene P…
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@cstross @cpm Ah, I hadn’t heard of that one, I had heard of “pluralistic i…
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@cpm lol, even over here in Norway I have started to plan for how to go without…
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@Patricia She was on the David McWilliams podcast a few times. As far as I can …
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@Patricia @cpm i recently read "how to blow up a pipeline" by andreas…
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@jakob @cpm maybe that’s my next stage of grief
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@Patricia Smaller countries do have some economic policy options that larger co…
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@drgroftehauge it doesn’t seem to be a function of big or small, rather of if…
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@Patricia @cpm well i would say Universal Basic Income would solve a lot of cap…
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@mrsbeanbag @cpm the instinctive response is of course “how would we pay for …
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6/ Ok, this is fun. Basically it’s a different way to look at a national curr…
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@Patricia @cpm well it seems to pay for itself in the long run. so i guess you …
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@mrsbeanbag @cpm Maybe we don’t have to figure out how to pay for it, my brai…
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7/ I really enjoy that a central part of her narrative is basically that “eve…
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@Patricia @cpm the way i've heard it put is, public spending isn't paid…
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@mrsbeanbag @cpm I haven’t gotten to that if that is in the book. But I think…
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8/ This first chapter was super interesting. I have to think about it for a bit…
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@Patricia It's the German version of neoliberalism, but there is an underst…
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9/ I think my sleep deprived brain won’t be able to grok inflation today. I�…
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@Patricia be careful you don't set your expectations too high. No one groks…
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@joelving that’s so funny because people talk about it like it’s trivial to…
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@Patricia NPR’s Planet Money did an episode on MMT some time back. Very inter…
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10/ I am trying to understand chapter 2 again, it is called “Think of inflati…
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11/ I am wondering how much these “models” are suited for a global economy.…
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12/ People have told me before that inflation is what happens when the “econo…
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13/ I don’t see any sign of the Norwegian economy being “overheated”. Wha…
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14/ What is a problem is that the NOK to USD/Euro exchange rate weak. So import…
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15/ And young people and families are being hit the hardest because they are ei…
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16/ Meanwhile the politicians are on TV saying “Well Actually The Economy Is …
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17/ So basically, I don’t see that the interest rate is the appropriate tool …
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@adriano how is that going?
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@Patricia The simplest explanation of inflation that I can come up with (MMT-in…
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@joelving but that isn’t right, and that is the problem. People are making up…
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@Patricia Interest rates are such a complicated issue and one that mainstream e…
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@joelving and that doesn’t work either if the inflation is imported. So yet a…
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@Patricia 'overheated' in a monetary policy sense means 'the amount…
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@adriano based on The Shock Doctrine I’d be concerned with extremist capitali…
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@Patricia I think you're right. If the German or French economy slows down,…
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@david_megginson They have done some things, but those become drops in the ocea…
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@malwareminigun but I am asserting that’s not the problem we have. Our “inf…
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@Patricia @joelving My headcanon metaphor for money is not that it's a phys…
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@cstross @joelving but that is not our problem. Our problem is that our currenc…
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@cstross @joelving I think this model of thinking only works for large economie…
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18/ In my opinion the most logical thing is that the NOK is down for the same r…
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19/ I’m starting to conclude that this is yet another Friedman-model fuckup.
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20/ To be honest, I’m not even sure that MMT would work for a tiny economy ba…
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21/ I am getting increasingly disillusioned with economics as an explanation mo…
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@Patricia Oh, about my friends and their homes: I think they did ok.
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@adriano 💜
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@Patricia MMT—I think—would say that inflation is because there’s too muc…
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@alper like I say in the thread, that doesn’t make sense for Norway
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@Patricia sounds like a good week to be visiting
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@mrsbeanbag oh, Norway has probably never been cheaper, probably the best time …
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@Patricia @cstross @joelving the theory (and sometimes even the practice) is th…
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@luis_in_brief @cstross @joelving that only helps the part of the population th…
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22/ And people are so keen on simple explanations they are willing to close the…
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23/ One thing that is very Norwegian, and relevant here, we are a high-trust so…
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@Patricia Those inflations are the same thing though. The person selling dollar…
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@malwareminigun we can do a lot of things, but we cannot make our currency be g…
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@malwareminigun you know what would strengthen our currency (I’m almost 100% …
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@Patricia just an ignorant 'murican here, but also: My impression is that a…
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@danlyke sort of, but then Germany shut down its nuclear reactors and Russia in…
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24/ but I think the currency lens is probably the right one, but not MMT (or ma…
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25/ so maybe we CAN influence the NOK, but not through interest rates, but rath…
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@Patricia Whatever theory is true it will in the end probably be overshadowed b…
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@alper I actually think it IS vibeshttps://social.vivaldi.net/@Patricia/1127185…
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@alper global vibes. People feeling that the future is uncertain and wanting to…
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26/ And all indicators are showing that it’s not working. The price of the NO…
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@Patricia I think I failed to make the point I was making. I'm not making a…
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@Patricia Agreed!
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@Patricia yeah, after I typed that I thought about my brother in law, who's…
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@danlyke @Patricia Norway might have made money with hydrocarbons but describin…
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@danlyke I agree, unfortunately the Norwegian government isn’t doing nearly e…
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@malwareminigun but the tools are completely different. There isn’t anything …
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@Patricia > weakness of the NOK doesn’t seem to have much to do with Norwa…
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@Patricia I'm not saying that raising interest rates is a good idea. All I&…
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@Patricia put another way, 'overheated' does not mean 'the economy …
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@Patricia @danlyke I generally find the petroleum taxation and the Government P…
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@malwareminigun yeah, although Statistia says oil is 23% of GDP down from 35% l…
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@danlyke @malwareminigun this is why we have strict rules on spending it, most …
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@BenAveling I mean, looking at the actual data, the value fluctuations are in l…
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@dazo @danlyke oh, that’s not what I meant, I absolutely agree, but we need t…
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27/ Looking at the NOK vs USD and Euro and the gold price in dollars. When peop…
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@Patricia There's a lot of fear out there. Interest rates possibly don'…
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@BenAveling the thing is that people aren’t thinking “getting good returns�…
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28/ I love how much she uses the words “believe” and “faith” - gets acr…
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29/ It’s clear to me now why they are using the interest rate. It is the only…
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@Patricia How about the share and role of currency speculators in liquidity and…
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@pst I don’t have any numbers, but I suspect any other actor is a blip compar…
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@pst «Etter en topp på 4,3 milliarder kroner per dag i oktober 2022, kuttet N…
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@pst divide by 10ish to get that in dollars/euros. They peaked at around 430 mi…
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30/ Maybe they have been trying to do exactly what I’m saying here? Reducing …
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31/ Seems to correlate? This is the central banks “governing interest rate”
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32/ Lol, looking at all these graphs together… it doesn’t seem to matter ei…
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33/ Which, to be fair, is fully in line with MMT: taxes’ primary purpose is t…
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34/ But then I don’t think there is any good reason for increasing interest r…
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35/ it’s funny how Norwegian newspapers and even the central bank are not eve…
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36/ Turns out that the pre-Friedman King of Economy, John Maynard Keynes, agree…
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@alienghic “the economy” no matter who you ask (I hope) is more than the ex…
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@Patricia Right, so rather than raising interest rates, they could avoid being …
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@malwareminigun I don’t think I have heard of that being done here… instead…
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@Patricia Put another way, raising interest rates is an attempt to encourage fo…
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@Patricia It's somewhat notable that this is a thing the US does *not* have…
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37/ … huh this sounds familiar actually (thanks @malwareminigun)https://youtu…
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38/ Apparently one of the things you can do in our situation is to increase sal…
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39/ However, here we meet another weird dynamic: in Norwegian union “culture�…
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40/ And one sector is particularly vulnerable: construction. Because:1. Materia…
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41/ Which means, as @intargapoints out, housing prices are not going down as we…
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42/ The interest rate hikes are making a hard situation worse by “cooling” …
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43/ And that gets us the whole “what is inflation?”. Because if it is that …
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44/ Housing is also a weird market in general, because once you’re in, you bu…
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45/ However, if you are a renter you are also getting hit, again by different e…
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46/ Or in kubernetes analogy (because of Cybercyn and the book The Unaccountabi…
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47/ I don’t know what the answer is, my earlier idea of constraining the supp…
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48/ And maybe the bottom dropped out from under the NOK, but the whole oil tax …
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49/ is it possible that they are so afraid of “inflation” they are actually…
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50/ I told you, inflation is much harder to grok than I thought, because it’s…
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51/ Ok, I’m still on the inflation chapter (but getting towards the end, I pr…
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52/ Ok, I think I get it. MMT says that a deficit isn’t a sign of government …
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@Patricia now I'm curious. With systems with lots of complex feedback loops…
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@Paxxi From my current understanding that is an artifact of how the field was f…
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@Paxxi the rest of us did develop that. Look at everything from weather forecas…
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@Paxxi instead they have developed very high level, coarse grained, numbers. Be…
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@Paxxi it doesn’t matter if the math and the logic is right
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@Patricia yeah that was my thinking, you hear about the new supercomputers for …
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@Paxxi and related to that, something else occurred to me these past days: anot…
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@Patricia The Physics Envy is strong in economics even for phenomena that are r…
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@Patricia I like this radiator system analogy
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@malwareminigun thank you!
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53/ Ok, fine. Y’all have told me over and over to read Steve Keen, and I woul…
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54/ Hopefully the link to the episode works, title is “Does Modern Monetary T…
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@Patricia @Paxxi maybe it is also because economic choices need to be explainab…
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@murb @Paxxi 🤷🏻‍♀️ I definitely don’t understand politics
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@Patricia in the netherlands we recently extended an objective way to determine…
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@murb if your apartment is 100% loan financed (which seems to be quite normal) …
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@Patricia This is I guess also the cause of the political battle between MMT an…
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@alper tbf to MMT, half of it is just describing what countries already do and …
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@Patricia No, it didnt. Try this one https://debunkingeconomics.com/episode/do…
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@jantzen it worked for me so 😂
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55/ Short recap: he basically agrees with MMT on most things. One thing came up…
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@jantzen fixed the link because we can edit ✨
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56/ Here is the clip, I have no idea if he’s right or not about this particul…
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@Paxxi @Patricia Weather forecasting has been solved right? Why couldn’t the …
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@alper @Paxxi that’s the thing tho. That’s the whole thing. NEITHER CAN BE …
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57/ The parts of MMT that I like are the descriptive parts. Where they just tal…
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58/ Another interesting clip from Keen where they talk about how to “create m…
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59/ Ah nice, finally we have some mention of a more “global” economy. And t…
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@Patricia I kind of expected some of MMT was based around "all your debt i…
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@artemist that is one of the 3 requirements for this working.https://social.viv…
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@david_megginson I saw a video of a standup show by the comedian Josh Johnson w…
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@Patricia Or that we spend more of it domestically as decided in our national b…
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@Patricia also, NOK demand for taxes > central bank selling of NOK. Everythi…
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@baggetun the article implies that it was at least partially a willed decision,…
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@baggetun ok, just pasting links here, haven’t read them properly yet https:/…
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@baggetun a bit more detail and also graphs 😃https://www.norges-bank.no/tema…
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60/ someone asked about this buying and selling of NOK when it comes to the sov…
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@david_megginson I think maybe that is the Canadian version of the same story �…
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@baggetun completely irrelevant: they should get themselves a graphic designer …
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61/ Based on this is it possible that Norway is actually doing MMT? Sort of? Bu…
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62/ I feel so smart when I read news articles that agree with me 🤓 🤣“An…
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63/ What is absolutely hilarious is that the effect he describes on the housing…
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@Patricia As I read it, the other (primary?) purpose of tax is to remove from t…
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@schmerg @RichardJMurphy yes, it’s “tapping water from the radiator system …
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@Patricia I remember reading about how trade deficits aren't really a probl…
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@Paxxi oh that’s so funny. Because the model breaks, but they get so handwavy…
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64/ Real estate prices are up 8% this year, that’s bananas. But I guess it’…
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@Patricia haha yeah 😀I'm thinking that whatever the Americans come up wi…
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@Paxxi yeah, that is the part I worry about too. It’s like when I was a kid (…
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@Paxxi I’m gonna become an economist and tell other countries that they shoul…
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@Patricia @Paxxi I heard that advice, too, when I was a kid. Now that I'm a…
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@Paxxi @Patricia Trade balances are fun. Denmark chose a particular constructio…
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65/ After spending ages on inflation, I’m apparently breezing through chapter…
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@Patricia I’d have expected some qualifiers on that: deficits aren’t real, …
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@BenAveling there’s a whole chapter 😂 but the basic idea is the radiator m…
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@BenAveling the three requirements for MMT to be available as a toolhttps://soc…
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@BenAveling my radiator analogy https://social.vivaldi.net/@Patricia/1127207302…
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@BenAveling tbh, I’m not sure how this would work with a less important curre…
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@Paxxi @Patricia humorously, I read something a few years ago that concluded th…
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@Patricia @BenAveling MMT'ers would balk at your description of MMT as some…
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@joelving @BenAveling Like I mentioned before it isn’t just descriptive. It�…
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@joelving @BenAveling and tbh I do think a lot of this immunity to consequences…
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@joelving @BenAveling here, the USD doesn’t behave “normally”(if we belie…
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@tedmielczarek @Patricia I'm guessing that's not really true anymore wi…
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@Paxxi @tedmielczarek I haven’t looked up any numbers but I believe Keen talk…
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@Patricia @BenAveling One thing to also keep in mind. There have to be water in…
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@wackJackle @BenAveling yeah, I think I write about that early on in this threa…
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@tedmielczarek I suspect there are similar arguments to be made with the US dol…
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@danlyke @tedmielczarek @Paxxi I don’t think so… mostly because the whole w…
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@joelving @BenAveling @Paxxi here is the descriptive vs prescriptive posthttps:…
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@Patricia @BenAveling As I recall, they're pretty upfront about that not be…
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@joelving @BenAveling not in this book at least. She is very clear.
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@Patricia @BenAveling @Paxxi yeah, I do seem to remember her glossing over it p…
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@Patricia @BenAveling @Paxxi I get it though. When MMT (the analysis tool) tell…
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@joelving @BenAveling @Paxxi I am saying she is conflating the two. Grep for �…
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@joelving @BenAveling @Paxxi there is a reason I brought it up. I didn’t like…
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@Patricia @BenAveling @Paxxi you mean the part where she says that we should ev…
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@joelving @BenAveling @Paxxi no I mean for example all of the times she talks a…
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@joelving @BenAveling @Paxxi its absolutely unmistakable in the book, but if Wi…
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@joelving @BenAveling @Paxxi same table you have the “Inflation control” pl…
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@Patricia @BenAveling as a complete financial layperson I tried to make sense o…
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@rainynight65 @BenAveling I’m not saying that MMT is right, but the radiator …
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66/ Ok, done with chapter 3, the above sums it up, maybe with an addition that …
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67/ To be fair, I think that issue is pervasive in the whole field. They are no…
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68/ I really thought I’d be more convinced by leftist economists. But they ar…
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69/ anyway, next chapter: 4. Their Red Ink Is Our Black Ink
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@Jackiemauro tbqh, no offense, but if your theory is not testable it isn’t ev…
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@Patricia I don't follow the radiator analogy. My simple understanding curr…
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@Patricia Household debt is about balancing consumption over a lifetime. We bor…
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@Jackiemauro 1/ oh people who are in disciplines that work with complex systems…
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@Jackiemauro 2/ Investigate when they are behaving oddly. Track and log as much…
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@Jackiemauro 3/ And if the system doesn’t do what we thought, 9.9/10 times we…
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@Patricia The immediate consequence of printing money is that all the money you…
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@BenAveling according to how I understand MMT, money isn’t really anything ot…
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@BenAveling so basically they reject your entire mental model 😅
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@BenAveling but I personally think that this might be the case for the US, beca…
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@Jackiemauro that was pretty much a stream of consciousness while trying (and f…
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@Patricia The word "only" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. True …
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@BenAveling lol, I’m just describing my understanding of MMT from reading 3 c…
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@Patricia Suppose the supply of goods were to grow by 10%, and the amount of mo…
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@BenAveling that is your model. But that is all it is. Just like all the other …
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@Patricia All models are wrong. Some models are useful.Lets use the radiator mo…
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@Patricia If it was our turning up the radiator that triggered someone to open …
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@BenAveling I think now that these models are hindering the whole field, and by…
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@BenAveling I’m in essence saying all models are wrong and these particular m…
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70/ Related to this, if you had a billion dollars and you were convinced that w…
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@Patricia There's a tendency for models to start simple, and get more compl…
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@BenAveling I recommend something called the Cynefin framework, if you don’t …
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@Patricia Part of what makes economics particularly hard is that forecasts chan…
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@BenAveling exactly that is the “adaptive” in “complex adaptive systems”
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@Patricia New to me. Let me look it up.
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@BenAveling was extremely useful for me to clarify my thinking. For me it took …
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@Patricia Yes. Agreed.
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71/ Couldn’t get excited about chapter 4 and 5 seems so much more interesting…
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@Patricia broadly speaking: you can't. Since money is just the working flui…
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@RAOF I think the option could be to invest in concrete real estate and develop…
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@RAOF as it is I live in a city, I have a small emergency pantry. Anything over…
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@PatriciaNew audiobook idea: "Steve Keen read by Patricia Aas" 😁@j…
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@ami @joelving oh no. Patricia Yells At Books, but now as a podcast
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@Patricia @ami @joelving 🤣
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@Patricia @ami @joelving Or just "Yelling at Books - the podcast". Th…
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@arne_mertz @ami @joelving rofl
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@Patricia it’s not there yet. Let us know when we can subscribe :-)
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@samantha42 ROFL
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@Patricia A thing that makes it more interesting/tricky is that so many of the …
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@Patricia Also, you mention interest rates as one of the few controls available…
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@sgf to me that doesn’t make sense, because it would be like saying the only …
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@Patricia In what I was saying, I didn't mean to suggest it's the only …
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@sgf that’s the thing, if you work from the point of view that what you are d…
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@Patricia Not an economist either, but if I might jam a bit: I think what much …
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@Patricia inflation tries to measure that by measuring how much money changes h…
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@Patricia Looking at the hockey stick in real estate and stocks, I don’t nece…
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@Patricia exchange rates than control the flow rates between economies. Intuiti…
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@b3n 😂 you’re basically just making up your own economic model now, and th…
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72/ Finally had some time to continue and this chapter might take a while, and …
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@Patricia This new Ones and Tooze is about Weimar and hyperinflation. https://p…
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@alper ah, thanks! That has been a big missing puzzle piece, I think. Because i…
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@alper well that was bleak. I’m not liking that these years before the second…
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73/ Well there it is, I wasn’t off base after all. Because of the position of…
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74/ Some Norwegians have recommended that we peg the NOK to the Euro, and I thi…
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75/ Chapter 5: “‘Winning’ at trade” is interesting, but doesn’t reall…
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76/ The “winning vs losing” at trade is explicitly directed at Donald Trump…
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77/ What I appreciate:1. She is clear that the challenges that face us in the y…
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78/ I think 4 is essential for progress to be made, because the current right a…
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79/ But the book is supposed to not just be a work of ideology, but provide a w…
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80/ Chapter 6 is on entitlement programs, but I think I’m going to go back to…
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81/ why are we humans so ready to blame all of our problems on “the other”.…
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82/ Norwegian lyrics:“Han der er ikke sånn som degFort deg bort og ta hanDet…
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83/ Rudimentary English translation:“He's not like youHurry over and get …
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84/ Ok, chapter 4 “Their red ink, is our black ink”. I think it was Keen in…
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85/ So if “the amount of money” we have is flexible, and that the value of …
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@Patricia MMT = Magic Money Tree?There's lot of ways in which the money sup…
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86/ I can accept that the relationship with a currency is different when one ha…
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87/ It’s funny because in my paper on Costa Rica (which I mentioned in anothe…
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88/ And as I mentioned earlier, maybe the dollar has some protection here. That…
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@BenAveling MMT is Modern Monetary Theory, which is what this book is about (an…
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@BenAveling one of its premises is that a currency issuer can “print money at…
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@Patricia When the gold standard was still there, people definitely noticed the…
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@Patricia The word "only" is doing a lot of work in that statement. A…
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@Patricia bread is not fungible because fresh bread is not interchangeable with…
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@mrsbeanbag yeah, but in my head… money is perhaps slightly consumable? At le…
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@Patricia that also applies to commodities including gold. i remember the gold …
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@mrsbeanbag oh, that’s interesting, do you have a link?
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@BenAveling it’s funny because one of the other books talked about making mon…
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@Patricia Ironic. The rich keep rather less of their wealth in the form of mone…
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@Patricia I mean, in so far as printing money driving inflation, there's a …
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89/ Well, shit this is damning 😂“Cases 5 and 6 underscore the lack of a ca…
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90/ I know after the rant I’ve been on the last few weeks that I shouldn’t …
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@Patricia which of the books so far has explored what money actually is in a wa…
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91/ Oh here he goes into another side of this (very US centric): that the incre…
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@Patricia to me predicting it? no sadly lol
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@Patricia i'd noticed the price of gold was following this pattern, though …
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@Patricia well here's some evidence https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvard…
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@igimenezblb @Patricia i mean quantitative easing didn't produce any of the…
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@mrsbeanbag @igimenezblb I need to read more on quantitative easing
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@Patricia i mean it figures that the new money has to *actually circulate* befo…
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@mrsbeanbag in the study they looked for inflation in the next five years, that…
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@baggetun we’re not at the level of a bank here
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@hallvors I really liked “Money” but I read that years ago. It was a lot of…
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@Patricia @igimenezblb yeah well the thinking seemed to be if you put more mone…
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@mrsbeanbag @igimenezblb hm, but according to his TED talk (the post after in t…
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@mrsbeanbag @igimenezblb ah sorry, even further down. The article I was talking…
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@mrsbeanbag @igimenezblb screenshot from the TED talk
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@mrsbeanbag @igimenezblb if nothing else, this graph is unintuitive for me
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@Patricia @igimenezblb well i guess if you define average household wealth as e…
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@mrsbeanbag @igimenezblb according to his TED talk it did make houses more expe…
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@Patricia @igimenezblb well i don't know what any of that means tbh. but my…
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@mrsbeanbag @igimenezblb Funnily I think I posted something to that effect some…
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@Patricia @igimenezblb yeah well you can't "spend" houses can you…
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@mrsbeanbag @igimenezblb I guess this is what Harvey was talking about (last th…
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@Patricia @igimenezblb yeah well if you rent it's an altogether different p…
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@Patricia @igimenezblb as for borrowing against it, well afaik most landlords a…
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@mrsbeanbag @igimenezblb if they bought it for a million and it increased in va…
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@Patricia @igimenezblb well i think it all just comes down to the concept of &q…
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@mrsbeanbag @igimenezblb right now I’m starting to wonder if we actually know…
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@Patricia @igimenezblb it's possible that this makes sense but i am at a de…
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@mrsbeanbag @igimenezblb have fun!
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92/ As some folks have alluded at (where does the new money actually go) and ba…
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@Patricia @igimenezblb too late
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@mrsbeanbag @igimenezblb oh sorry, I hope it wasn’t me 😅
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@Patricia @igimenezblb lol i mean i'm already having fun. economics chat is…
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@mrsbeanbag @igimenezblb ah, good! 😃
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93/ Even if we accept that money doesn’t work the way it works for us “mone…
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@Patricia @igimenezblb in the meantime i can explain why space time is 11 dime…
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@mrsbeanbag @igimenezblb Physics makes my soul hurt 😂🍻
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@david_megginson I would’ve said the same a month ago, but now I’m not so s…
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@Patricia @igimenezblb yeah but in a good way right. like that bit in your ankl…
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@mrsbeanbag @igimenezblb Kid Patricia was angry for a long time that the univer…
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@Patricia @igimenezblb yeah yeah well the fun part is that it doesn't. only…
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@mrsbeanbag @igimenezblb see? Soul ouch 🤣
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@mrsbeanbag @igimenezblb I don’t understand the economy I have zero faith I c…
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@Patricia @igimenezblb this is the title of my next disco music
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@mrsbeanbag @igimenezblb 🤣🤣🤣
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@david_megginson @mrsbeanbag I think if you want to talk with me at the level o…
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@david_megginson @Patricia yeah well i think about the early days of our Tory g…
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@mrsbeanbag Yes, exactly that. Saying borrowing is always the wrong thing is a…
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@david_megginson @Patricia but we have a thing that the media does which is the…
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@mrsbeanbag @david_megginson and I’m starting to wonder if our mental models …
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@david_megginson @Patricia and now Labour have to deal with high inflation and …
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@david_megginson @mrsbeanbag unfortunately rn to me… it looks like it might a…
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@david_megginson @mrsbeanbag You probably need to read all my other book thread…
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@mrsbeanbag @david_megginson @Patricia your commentary on Kelton made me think …
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@hypostase @mrsbeanbag @david_megginson I mean, it’s definitely interesting i…
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@mrsbeanbag I haven't followed UK politics all that closely, but I suspect …
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@david_megginson @Patricia well the actual campaign leaflet i received through …
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@mrsbeanbag I don't even know what that means. "Strict rules" ca…
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@david_megginson @Patricia well i think we are meant to understand something by…
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@david_megginson @Patricia the enduring myth that Labour "bankrupts the co…
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@david_megginson @Patricia it's an easy thing to understand that there'…
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@mrsbeanbag @david_megginson that money behaves/looks differently when you are …
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@david_megginson @Patricia there's that famous Thatcher quote about "e…
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@mrsbeanbag @david_megginson she was apparently a fan of the Chicago uni people…
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@david_megginson @Patricia i have struggled to explain this to my own parents. …
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@mrsbeanbag @david_megginson when *I* spend money it definitely feels that way …
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@Patricia one of the challenges I have when pondering money in this way is thin…
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@danlyke or maybe it could be… free education? Or childcare? Or healthcare? W…
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@danlyke that’s why I said, maybe the effect of the “hole filling” depend…
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@Patricia @david_megginson when you're a node in the pipe system, if it goe…
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@Patricia @david_megginson but this is literally how my parents have put it: &q…
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@mrsbeanbag @david_megginson we are the 3-dimensional beings observing the 4-di…
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@Patricia @david_megginson yeah well that's the thing. when the govt spends…
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@Patricia right, because I used Tesla stock there, but in the late '90s or …
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@danlyke exactly
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@Patricia @david_megginson i actually don't know how to explain it to them …
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@Patricia @david_megginson i really struggle to get how people cannot fathom th…
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@mrsbeanbag @david_megginson my mental model in the beginning of the book was v…
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@Patricia @david_megginson it's like a failure of object permanence except …
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@mrsbeanbag @david_megginson but from the point of view of the radiator system�…
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@Patricia @david_megginson yeah well kinda except also the system has these mag…
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@mrsbeanbag @david_megginson and we can put in more, and the magic water genera…
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@Patricia @david_megginson and well. if you want a physics metaphor then quantu…
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@mrsbeanbag @david_megginson I thought we already established the physics vs Pa…
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@Patricia @david_megginson because here's the thing, money isn't a subs…
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@Patricia @david_megginson yeah it circulates. that's the key thing that pe…
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@Patricia @david_megginson and yet the degree of incredulousness i've had w…
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@mrsbeanbag Yes, it's more about how much money in total is in "circul…
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@david_megginson @mrsbeanbag and those models seem to be wrong about that.https…
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94/ Still in chapter 4. She was discussing another economist, Wynne Godley, and…
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95/ so far my (quite shallow) understanding is that these “accounting models�…
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@Patricia @danlyke incidentally, this is why I'm somewhat leary of sovereig…
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@Patricia @danlyke (a sovereign wealth fund may make some sense in somewhere li…
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@RAOF @danlyke funnily enough we actually do use a relatively small portion of …
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@bjoernstaerk it does make sense, also historically, but that makes it all the …
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@Patricia so whether people have good lives, feel successful, included, or not,…
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96/ I am worried that I’m finding this theory appealing just because the othe…
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97/ Brains suck
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98/ Ok, but if this is true, this seems to imply to me that austerity is counte…
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@jautero 🤷🏻‍♀️
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99/ my logic being that austerity means in effect a savings on the public side …
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@Patricia my understanding is that this is exactly what has happened when count…
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100/ but hold up… I just argued that the size of the money supply was not fix…
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@Patricia Thanks! A very fascinating subject. Perhaps economics is like cults b…
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@hallvors looking at the history of all sorts of sciences I think as humans we …
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101/ I’m sorry, but I have a lifetime of indoctrination to overcome here, and…
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@Patricia A central bank’s challenge might be managing the _perception of_ it…
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@hallvors but if this model is right austerity should hit private sector? But p…
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@Patricia I never finished this book, got about half way through before I got t…
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@gundersen actually, based on the paper a few dozen posts up the relationship b…
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@gundersen this is super interesting imohttps://social.vivaldi.net/@Patricia/11…
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@gundersen this would mean that the whole narrative is bogus. I’m still strug…
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@Patricia From my understanding that's the standard view in Economics (e.g.…
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@trost I don’t think it is the “mainstream” view, which seems quite neoca…
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102/ Ooh a rant against MMT by a Keynesian economist 🤓https://www.nytimes.co…
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103/ seems to me from reading this and some of the references that the disagree…
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@Patricia I think it is the mainstream view in so far as it is the standard tex…
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@trost yet politicians seem to reach for austerity a lot, both the EU as a whol…
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@trost also it seems he is Keynesian, which seems to have dominated before Frie…
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@trost need to read more about Keynesian economics
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@Patricia Yeah austerity has damaged the poorest EU economies really bad (Spain…
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When the debt becomes untenable and we have a 2008 crash, governments rescue th…
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104/ Also why reach immediately for interest rates? Is it because tax hikes are…
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@Patricia as someone who majored in applied economics, but hasn't really be…
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@flaki that makes sense to me, and also I think we overestimate how elastic the…
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@Patricia my favorite part of my economics university education was 3 years int…
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@flaki yeah, we automated that 😭🙈
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@Patricia https://piaille.fr/@colin_mcmillen/112724191768173376
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@flaki @colin_mcmillen truth
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@Patricia this was the prediction, yes. And I think the canonical recent exampl…
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@Patricia bonds are usually fixed rate at time of creation.Hence why raising in…
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105/ she is describing a model for interest rate that I think she is going to a…
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@Patricia it depends!Mostly because interest rates are seen as a financial solu…
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@Patricia for a fascinating analysis of flow of money over time in some specifi…
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@Di4na I’ll take a look 👍
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@Patricia that is because the banks actually loan money from the central bank t…
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@Di4na these economic models are driving me up the wall
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106/ Halfway through this but tbh this is a much more convincing argument for t…
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@Patricia The currently standard approach is that government determines whether…
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@Zamfr that seems silly to me. Because to me it will actually matter politicall…
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@igimenezblb @Patricia Not only that, but the little public spending that is al…
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@per_sonne @igimenezblb 😞
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@Patricia but, thinking more, while austerity was correctly predicted to be a f…
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107/ I wonder if the distribution he is presenting is the same in other countri…
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@Patricia Not sure what you meant by “hit”, but I will just keep following …
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@hallvors I think I was missing a few words 😅 my question was more that aust…
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@hallvors dyslexia means my brain will gladly add and subtract words and tell m…
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108/ omg these numbers are mind blowing. Boomers are absolutely killing it. And…
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109/ Related/unrelated : Piketty pisses me off even more now. Because instead o…
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@Patricia that is a really distinctive drop at 75-79. What is the cause of that…
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@Patricia those would be people born just after the depression and hitting adul…
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@http_error_418 I don’t know, might be related to the boomer period which had…
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110/ if y’all are new here, you can experience my spiraling rage at Piketty�…
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111/ oh my, I had forgotten how complete the Piketty-roasting Past Patricia di…
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@Patricia oh also, side note, but I also always recommend to consider any US po…
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@Di4na ah yes, the famously tolerant and inclusive group of white people over 5…
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@Patricia @Zamfr yes, and that was the point of separating central banks from p…
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@Patricia @Zamfr a lot of the West has forgotten what it is to suddenly need a …
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@Di4na @Zamfr I need to read more about inflation because I am starting to wond…
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@Patricia @Zamfr I mean some are yeah. If you want a relevant current one, the …
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@Di4na @Zamfr oh I didn’t mean historically true, I mean if the causal relati…
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112/ Getting towards the end of chapter 4 (which I skipped earlier) and she’s…
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113/ This speech is very interesting and recent. Only a couple of weeks old. An…
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@Patricia Absolutely. Most of Greece's creditors were German banks, and in …
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@Patricia Germany absolutely has, yes. And it used that to “bail out” Greec…
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114/ And here from the Congressional Research Service Deficit Financing, the De…
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115/ I have read a lot from the aftermath of the financial crisis. And a lot of…
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116/ But one thing I haven’t read much about is this inflation they’re curr…
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@Patricia Reading much of this thread, I finally remembered that I read "H…
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@Patricia Also, on the topic the financial crisis (I guess you may very well kn…
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@larsivi it’s funny because my family and I did a road trip the summer of 200…
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@larsivi I never did read the Black Swan. I always thought it was a business bo…
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117/ For real, how does this make any sense? Companies costs are increasing bec…
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@Patricia I had it recommended to me by someone, and I'm pretty sure that p…
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@larsivi as far as I understand it isn’t very technical, it was a New York Ti…
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@larsivi but I guess it’s one of those books I have to read because I’ll kn…
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@PatriciaI am no economist, but I think one idea is that higher interest rates …
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@audunska it’s an experiment, but it’s not working, all countries are raisi…
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@Patricia yes, but in addition to the narrative about the overheated economy, t…
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@audunska and they can get the same interest rate in pretty much any country ri…
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@Patricia one could argue that if the interest rate was significantly lower tha…
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@audunska why would you take a 20% currency hit for a 2% interest rate increase…
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@Patricia One story I find convincing: Trigger was a supply chain shock because…
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@Patricia This is the 2nd one I believe: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2…
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@trost thanks!
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@trost “We should recognize the recourse to higher interest rates for what it…
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118/ This, however, makes more sense to me.https://youtu.be/fjoDjv1R3to?si=0jJN…
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119/ Ok, I’m not alone with this feeling. One could’ve taxed corporations t…
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@dekk I am very ready to blame this on economics being a pseudoscience
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@Patricia You're very welcome and thank you too for all the content!Funnily…
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@trost oh dear, I apologize
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@Patricia actually... The term of "inflation" itself is... Problemati…
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@Patricia and once again... What is corporate profit ? Who get the money ?
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@Di4na unsurprisingly I haven’t seen a single number from any economist yet, …
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@Patricia ikr. You get these labels and then poof. No need to look into the box.
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@Patricia for a look into the complexity of inflation, this is a good start.Onc…
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@Patricia my personal take at inflation is simpler.People are retiring, which i…
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@Di4na that’s pretty much a pet theory too 🤣
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@Di4na hit wrong emoji 😂
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@Patricia i woke to the knowledge that people differ in their intensity of empa…
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@Patricia > having more of something would make it less valuablefalse myth i…
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@Patricia eluded != alludedis it good that i mention this distinction for us?
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@Patricia > Am I even making sense anymore ?you’ve not nailed down enough …
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@pelavarre I think the words mentioned in the 4th stage of genocide “Dehumani…
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@dekk or might even make it worse
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@pelavarre you get a pass 💜
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@pelavarre to feel like I might be close to something though… in my head… b…
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@Patricia i feel like it's worth a loti didn't dream up your analogies …
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@pelavarre I’m glad
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120/ Chapter 7. “The Deficits That Matter” Is pretty damning tbh, it seems …
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121/ Finished chapter 7 and 8 and it is pretty clear to me that this is mainly …
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122/ and tbh I think such a move would be positive thing not only for the US po…
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123/ I have been trying to find someone saying what is causing this inflation. …
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124/ Their whole model is based on the assumption that when prices go up it is …
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@aagot I don’t want to think about it.
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@pilum for sure, but that isn’t fixed by interest rates either 😂
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@alienghic and turning up interest rates won’t help with that either 😭
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@Patricia It's important to check if increased prices are all due to increa…
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@igimenezblb unfortunately raising interest rates doesn’t help with that eith…
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@Patricia Maybe it's what you're alluding to, but the big case of infla…
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@sgf oh my
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@sgf and yes, that would be very interesting to read more about
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125/ Ok, this is fascinating. Norway has one of the largest sovereign wealth fu…
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@Patricia That's fairly close to my understanding. There's more about …
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@Patricia Makes it all the more stupidly funny that Germans think that governme…
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@alper the problem there might be the euro. If the European Central Bank doesn�…
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@Patricia during the mining boom, when Australia was running consistent surplus…
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126/ Jon Stewart on MMT with Stephanie Kelton https://youtu.be/0G6obeUKWmw?si=-…
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127/ so back to my radiator system mental model. Question that seems partially …
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128/ I think maybe I should read the book Money by Jacob Goldstein again, becau…
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@Patricia i just keep being reminded of this segment from the Hitchhiker's …
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@mrsbeanbag “Spending a year dead for tax reasons” 🤣
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@Patricia some amount of inflation, i understand, is actually good, because it …
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@mrsbeanbag but is the goal “to spend”? I mean it is in “mainstream econo…
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@Patricia I think inflation is inevitable only when your money system allows us…
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@molenaar can you elaborate on why not?
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@Patricia that's also how i explain my sabbatical, if asked
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@mrsbeanbag fair
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@Patricia yeah it kind of is. but then you will read someone saying oh well we …
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@mrsbeanbag it’s funny because people have never gotten our business, we have…
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@Patricia isn't it more that inflation is useful and a reason to not have a…
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@danlyke that feels like the people who gamble with a system: “if I just doub…
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129/ Ok, I had an epiphany. And it’s about all the money that goes to the ric…
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@Patricia well money that went to banks to bail them out went into their reserv…
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@mrsbeanbag but money is money and if the Fed is taking care of solidity that m…
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@Patricia banks don't "use" money, except as equity. when they wa…
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@mrsbeanbag they have to have a certain amount don’t they? I seem to remember…
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@Patricia Yep, I think you hit the nail on the head there. Another book that pr…
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@bitbear lol, it’s on my list
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130/ Which reminds me of a story a guy told me. So his building only had one el…
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131/ this theory should be testable, basically go over the cases where they tri…
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@Patricia When you have read it, I think we need to sit down and talk economics…
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@bitbear 👍😂
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132/ A lot of what he presents as data supports my theory. Increased money supp…
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@Patricia You are getting there. I would recommend looking at the ratio of publ…
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@Patricia My usual short quip to remind that to people is, "Money has to g…
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@Di4na I was discussing this with someone and they got frustrated with me sayin…
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@Patricia The problematic part of linking "assets going up" with infl…
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@Patricia That is why raising interest rates is supposed to help with inflation…
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@Di4na tbh that leads me to think that we need a different lower interest rate …
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@Patricia But yes, basically the rise in real estate value in the past few deca…
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@Di4na he also said that 20% of boomers own a rental property.
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@Patricia yep, and the retirement funds. Index funds and other stuff like Black…
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@Di4na I put them also in the building next door. Everyone who has enough money…
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@Patricia well... that is one way to do it, and there are multiple government s…
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@Di4na I don’t know what Georgism is
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@Patricia right, but that is everyone that got a job all their life and put mon…
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@Di4na I wonder if farmland has the same value increase as regular real estate.…
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@Patricia a political and economical movement, mostly from the past but that st…
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@Di4na but all land isn’t equal. Both with regards to what you are allowed to…
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@Patricia weeeeelllll it is complicated, but it is *really* high value, because…
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@Di4na so is a rental property for I would think a lot lower cost. But I assume…
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@Patricia Yes and no. the idea of Georgism is that this is why there is a &quot…
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@Di4na isn’t this similar to property tax?
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@Patricia property tax usually take into account the value of the buildings on …
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@Di4na like all other economic theories that seems also very simplistic
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133/ Lol, I’m still stuck on inflation. Remember way in the beginning of this…
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134/ Maybe some went up because their costs were up when rebooting their suppl…
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@Patricia you would not believe (well I guess you would now) how important for …
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@cam lol, but that’s the whole point of the “project”
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135/ You know, one of the upsides of having more diversity in your field is new…
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@Jestbill it feels like they haven’t managed to do much except bicker for dec…
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@Patricia and then you try to fix it with unproven home remedies. Sometimes it …
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@aidanharding 💯
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@molenaar thanks!
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@Patricia i think you are referring to "Fractional Reserve Banking" w…
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@mrsbeanbag it’s been years since I read about banks 😅 maybe I should again
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136/ I give up. Norwegian inflation went down more than projected, so now Norwe…
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@Patricia I think at this point they’re desperately playing with the paramete…
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@tofagerl they have simplified reality to a handful of variables in a high scho…
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@aagot yes
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@aagot
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@aagot I feel like I’m expected to just think this is fine
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@adriano @aagot
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137/ This is a joke. They’re just doing the economics equivalent of techno-ba…
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138/ Why is it my problem that they created a completely unsuited academic disc…
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@Patricia I think you're essentially correct. (And, parenthetically, this p…
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@cstross oh wow, that takes exchange risk to a whole new level 😅
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@Patricia have you seen Gary Stephenson's YouTube videos? Ex-City trader an…
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@Patricia he goes on to make a link between what you are describing as the two …
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@Mschatelaine this sounds interesting, do you have a video you’d recommend as…
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@Patricia I think there's something to this! But I'm in no way an econo…
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@fishidwardrobe they’ve done a ton of studies that show the same thing: if yo…
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@Patricia I think you just re-invented Quantitative Easing from first principle…
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@schmerg I really need to read up on QE
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@Patricia Thanks for the inspiring thread.I got stuck on inflation too a while …
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@Patricia A similar contradiction holds with green transformation: the current …
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@kiliange the problem is that without wage increases people are effectively get…
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@Patricia I generally agree but would argue that inflation with constant wages …
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@kiliange inflation is by definition a broad, cross product/service, price incr…
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@Patricia try this one - Why the Rich Get Richer: https://youtu.be/rMkWPXVUteY?…
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@Mschatelaine thanks! 🙏
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@Mschatelaine @Patricia 💯pairs well with this: https://newrepublic.com/artic…
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@JamesWidman @Mschatelaine I feel like both of these are a bit shallow tbh. Giv…
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@Patricia @Mschatelaine sorry; i'm not sure i understand your question: whe…
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@JamesWidman @Mschatelaine that isn’t a mechanism, rather: what mechanism in …
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@Patricia @Mschatelaine after i posted above, i realized that there's other…
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@Patricia @Mschatelaine and the unusually-high post-war tax on the rich wasn&#3…
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@Patricia @Mschatelaine but back to your question: i thought wealth accumulatio…
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@JamesWidman @Mschatelaine my point is that, at least to me, that doesn’t exp…
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@JamesWidman @Mschatelaine this post https://social.vivaldi.net/@Patricia/11278…
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@Patricia @Mschatelaine i mean... money is kind of imaginary to begin with, isn…
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@Patricia @Mschatelaine so a large amount of "wealth" (as in, say, a …
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@JamesWidman @Mschatelaine now you’re getting abstract and philosophical and …
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@Patricia @Mschatelaine sorry for taking this conversation to "what-is-mon…
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@JamesWidman @Mschatelaine that part is imo beside the point. You can buy a hou…
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@Patricia @Mschatelaine but the rules for "buying" a house are 100% d…
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@Patricia @Mschatelaine like, the reality comes more directly from human behavi…
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@JamesWidman @Mschatelaine we’re not having the same conversation and I’m b…
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@Patricia @Mschatelaine i respect this! and i hereby discontinue
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@JamesWidman @Mschatelaine 💜💜💜
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139/ Ref post 129: I’m watching the documentary “97% owned” about the Bri…
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140/ Something I didn’t know: the author of The Deficit Myth, Stephanie Kelto…
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141/ Picking up the inflation thread for the current justification for interest…
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@Patricia Interestingly, in that sense it looks like the ultraLOW-interest rate…
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@Patricia And we can add the quite lucrative creation of all kinds of cryptocur…
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@pst if folks have a surplus of money they want to put it somewhere where it as…
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142/ So I’ve been thinking, if it is the case that increases in the money sup…
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143/ This interview with Warren Mosler is interesting, because he’s saying a …
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@jautero unfortunately this does exactly the opposite thing, it creates instrum…
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@Patricia One solution is a land value tax:* Most of the value of property is i…
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@alper I am not interested in taxing people’s homes, people who live in their…
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144/ If 1 is true and if more money to the rich/banks inflate real estate price…
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@Patricia This proposes that the land gets taxed but the homes do not. If the p…
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@alper Maybe this is a country thing, but owning the land under your house it e…
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@Patricia Isn't it Piketty who argued that the British insistence on paying…
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@Patricia (Or maybe it was post-World War II debt. I can't remember to be h…
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@_dm Iirc this was maybe twice for the UK? Where France instead used inflation …
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@Patricia I know there are a lot of things attached to it but I don't belie…
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@alper for me this is too indirect and a bit beside the point. Who “owns” t…
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@thollief @alper huh, I wonder if that is a thing here
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@Patricia Yeah. Also some current debates about this, e.g. https://adepteconomi…
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@_dm oooh this is interesting
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145/ Oh this is interesting:“The European Central Bank (ECB) published a stud…
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@Patricia I think the reasons for buying are also important though. Rich people…
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146/ It seems to me that things created for rich people to save are the root of…
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@Patricia I think that’s the model in for instance Tokyo where people can liv…
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@alper that sounds like a problem to me
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@_dm @Patricia Ignore the crypto idiocy. There is definitely merit to it.
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@wackJackle @_dm yeah, as usual the argumentation is generally more interesting…
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@igimenezblb @Patricia As a narrow nitpick, I do not think real estate reliably…
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@igimenezblb @Patricia Sorry. That turned into more of an essay than I intended…
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@_dm @igimenezblb oh I never meant to imply that this money inflates real estat…
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147/ I increasingly feel a need to understand how loans from private banks work…
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@Patricia they probably borrow from a central bank?
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@janl apparently it seems, at least from other countries, that they don’t. Th…
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@Patricia ooooo_OOOOO
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@janl it’s really interesting, the YouTube link is in this posthttps://social…
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@Patricia As far as I know no major country bans rehypothecation. Individual ba…
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@Foritus do you have some talks, articles, books or something that goes into ho…
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@janl @Patricia They do not print money or borrow from the central bank. When a…
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@baggetun @janl that’s why it was it quotation marks, it was in the meaning o…
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@jautero if we imagine that all mortgages are from the government, no private s…
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@Patricia That is the other difference from student loans. There is no aftermar…
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148/ This is a quite good explanation of MMT by one of the people who developed…
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@Patricia The norges bank has an explainer on their website. Its much the same …
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@Patricia @janl there's no reserve requirement in the UK, and hasn't be…
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@Patricia @janl in fact this has lately been making me wonder about the drive t…
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@Patricia Sure you can consider it unfair. People in Amsterdam also consider th…
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@alper I am actually saying that the government should make sure everyone can b…
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@Zamfr @Patricia iirc the big thing that got the US banks into trouble in 2007 …
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@mrsbeanbag @Zamfr @Patricia So the banks just stopped repossessing homes and t…
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@shafik @mrsbeanbag @Zamfr oh wow, I’d love to learn more about these
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@Patricia @mrsbeanbag @Zamfr the story is pretty well done, so listen to it whe…
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@shafik @mrsbeanbag @Zamfr I did, I just wanted to know more
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@janl @Patricia It’s much worse than that. Fractional banking is essentially …
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@hypostase @janl @Patricia It's more about a different focus. The emphasis …
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@janl @Zamfr @Patricia I kinda get it. It’s just that after seeing 120% mortg…
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@hypostase @janl @Patricia Oh, I won't pretend that I know if the current r…
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@Zamfr @hypostase @janl I really want to learn more about how this works in pra…
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@Patricia @hypostase @janl The link I posted above talks about it in appendix 2…
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@Zamfr @hypostase @janl Thanks !
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@Patricia so giving out a lot of mortgages is fine. As long as folks are actual…
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@shafik you’re assuming it’s regular people who were buying, but there is n…
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@shafik what’s doing the inflation is the massive increase in the money suppl…
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@shafik so the economists are surprised. They were starting to wonder if there …
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@shafik what I was saying and what I’ve later seen others say (for example in…
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@shafik and the money probably went other places too where you “invest”, be…
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