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And that’s why the fed ensures we have a mildly inflationary currency. If it deflated spending would drop, cutting the velocity of money, and cutting out econo
by rblatz 9y ago
And that’s why the fed ensures we have a mildly inflationary currency. If it deflated spending would drop, cutting the velocity of money, and cutting out economic growth.
- 0x445442 9y ago"If it deflated spending would drop" That statements not a given. If it were so, people would not use credit cards.
- rblatz 9y agoThat’s interesting, I’ve never thought about credit cards as a sort of deflationary virtual currency.
- seanot 9y agoYou're discounting the technology sector and nearly the entire 19th century.