• HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
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    2 months ago

    Despite your credentials I highly disagree about supply and demand. That 21 trillions was not folks buying bread and eggs. It won’t explode inflation as production will increase but its going to effect it.

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        2 months ago

        You speak like economics is a science with agreement across the board instead of a collection of different philosophies with limited enough evidence that at best there are more accepted and less accepted ones that change during different time periods.

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          2 months ago

          Oh, that wasn’t my intention. I disagree with Chicago School supply-side economics. I also think it’s fucking dumb that DNC leadership pointed at economic indicators that left out cost of food and rent and said “things are great!” Economics in the west has been seen as fairly monolithic so I am pretty strident in my refutation of that view. I’m also certain about the real-world pressures that lower class Americans have to face- rent and food are more expensive than ever, while wages are stagnant and benefits are slashed.

          In a roundabout way, I’m trying to speak to your original comment: what voters see as similar between Trump and Sanders is that they want to change the economic policies that have left average Americans with less money.

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            2 months ago

            Im certainly not chicago and view myself as keynesian but I take it a bit further and believe currency has no value except when used in a transaction. One thing that annoys me is repbulicans love to say how tax cuts will stimulate the economy and raising them will slow it down but when we have an overheated economy and inflation they don’t propose raising taxes as a solution or reducing debt and going further and making rainy day funds. Democrats to really they just don’t push the stimulus side os much either.