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True. In general, we need maximal amount of investment and new credit/money creation going into innovation and productivity rather than financial asset specula
by SkyMarshal 3y ago
True. In general, we need maximal amount of investment and new credit/money creation going into innovation and productivity rather than financial asset speculation or consumption. If it mainly goes into consumption, we get inflation without growth. If it mainly goes into financial asset speculation, we get bubbles and crises. But if it mainly goes into innovation and productivity, we get steady and sustained economic growth without crises or inflation.
The problem with cryptocurrency is that it is inherently separate from the real economy, and difficult to use for direct investment into real world innovation or productivity. Right now, new money creation in cryptocurrency goes mainly into digital asset speculation, resulting in periodic bubbles, and then failures of centralized crypto businesses like FTX, Celsius, etc.