PrimalDual

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by PrimalDual 10y ago
So the point in an economy with underutilized resources money printing does not necessarily translate money printing to inflation directly. More importantly, the US has carried out a huge money printing scheme: QE. The federal reserve bough
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by PrimalDual 10y ago
So I understand that the real solution is to fix the tax system but I doubt that is politically realistic. I think you are also assuming that returns on all investments would stay the same under increased inflation which I seriously doubt.
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by PrimalDual 10y ago
What do you mean by decades? The US has been borrowing money but that hardly translates to printing it. I can definitely see how quantitative easing essentially translates to printing a couple of trillion to buy outstanding debt but that ha
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by PrimalDual 10y ago
So right now it comes from other people's paycheck but does it have to? Why don't rich countries like the US, Switzerland or Japan not print money to cover their spending? Inflation is not the problem it used to be and I actually
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by PrimalDual 10y ago
I think the story of not having enough young people to pay for older people is missing a bit of evidence. Especially since if labor were scarce we would be seeing increases in wages, inflation and a tight labor market. Instead we have the e
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by PrimalDual 10y ago
I like that you bring the legality of these housing restrictions into question. I understand that there is a use for zoning laws in maintaining neighborhood quality; however, I think that what the Bay Area has is a defacto immigration contr
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by PrimalDual 10y ago
People don't have the right to live wherever they want but in the United States the government(local or federal) should not be able to limit immigration of citizens between regions inside the country. I fail to see the difference betwe