Paul Krugman economics: Deny, deny, deny!

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Max E., Mar 4, 2013.

  1. And the monetary implications thereof.
     
    #101     Mar 7, 2013
  2. Ricter

    Ricter

    Actually, those are effects of the interplay of supply and demand on goods and the medium of exchange.

    Anyway, what you said earlier about fundamentals is good. How tightly coupled are the money supply and inflation?

    Here's a nice, concise piece on the question:

    http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/111/inflation/money-supply-inflation/
     
    #102     Mar 7, 2013
  3. Lucrum

    Lucrum

    Actually the Chinese beer guy is probably the closest thing to a real economist we have in this forum, dumb ass.
     
    #103     Mar 7, 2013
  4. piezoe

    piezoe

    QE is essential for recovery.
     
    #104     Mar 7, 2013
  5. piezoe

    piezoe

    Right regarding the opinions they have posted. I don't need to repeat what they have already posted. I wholeheartedly agree with them. And the proof frankly is that the economy is actually responding very nicely to the medicine. But perhaps we could use a higher dosage. That's what Krugman has suggested.

    There will be plenty of time later to shrink the Fed balance sheet, but now is not the time. And yes we will experience some higher then desirable inflation, but not hyperinflation, and a little inflation is better than deflation any day!

    A lot of folks don't understand that government finances don't have to operate the way their checking account does. Just imagine we had had a balanced budget amendment in place when the financial crisis hit. We'd have been in a real pickle.

    The thing to be most concerned about right now, in my personal opinion, is the reactionary wing of the Republican party. These folks represent a serious threat to the recovery. We need a balanced, forward looking, gradual approach to digging out of the hole we've dug. Even with the best Fed policy in place we have to have a Congress that will all pull in the same direction. That direction has already been determined, it is time to get on board and start rowing in the right direction.
     
    #105     Mar 7, 2013
  6. Lucrum

    Lucrum

    NOT the kind of recovery I want.
     
    #106     Mar 7, 2013
  7. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    Really? Please explain how QE drives recovery.

    As for the rest of this hilarity, I'll respond later - I need to head to class.
     
    #107     Mar 7, 2013
  8. piezoe

    piezoe

    Well thanks for posting that chart, but I am a little confused by it because my chart of the dollar futures (DX) shows the dollar higher in 2012 than in 2008, but your shows it lower in 2012 than in 2008. Did you get that chart from the Republican National headquarters? :D
     
    #108     Mar 7, 2013
  9. Quite frankly all of that is some pretty stupid shit.

    but please do explain how govt finances differ from my checking account.


    I mean I've heard dumbasses say it often before but none have been willing to detail how this supposedly works.
     
    #109     Mar 7, 2013
  10. You, Achilles and a few others are about the only ones worth listening to on the topic. Of course, the other websites and blogs that cover this stuff HONESTLY are deemed "conspiratorial" by the morons (yes, willfully ignorant morons), who continue to champion the "Krugman cause".

    btw, I'd laugh about the Piezoe comment on the economy doing "so well" if it weren't so ridiculously absurd. The irony is that these guys are self admitted socialists who cheerlead asset inflation, the exact recipe for impoverishing the lower classes that they are supposed to be fighting for. Just more of the complete hypocrisy that we witness on a daily basis.
     
    #110     Mar 7, 2013