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Yeah you're right. To wonky. Its to ez for j6p to equate the household budget/debt analogies with that of the Federal government. Especially with the false ana
by bubbleRefuge 14y ago
Yeah you're right. To wonky. Its to ez for j6p to equate the household budget/debt analogies with that of the Federal government. Especially with the false analogy reinforced every 5s by politicians/pundits on Fox News/CNN.
- tunesmith 14y agoThat one's always bugged me, because it's easy to imagine a Keynesian household budget, too. Imagine a multi-generational household where the patriarch has savings but where the living expenses are covered by his descendants. Then the banking system go crazy for a couple of months - a kid has a business idea that will make money but has lost bank funding. The patriarch has the choice whether to invest savings to get the business off the ground (increasing the probability of the kid contributing to living expenses in the future), or instead just tell the kid to tighten his belt, at the expense of the patriarch's own future living standard.