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matias, could you explain the FED's interest rate policy on excess reserves?
ReplyDeleteis it inflation targeting? by the way, how would inflation work in USA? Since their imports are in dollars, cost inflation must have different dynamics in the USA
sorry if its too many questions. abraço
Nope it is more fear of full employment as Jamie Galbraith calls it. See this post http://nakedkeynesianism.blogspot.com/2012/05/fed-up-with-full-empoyment-target.html. Also, inflation in the US is mostly about supply side shocks and wage resistance, and since there is no wage resistance since the 1970s there is no real inflation.
Deletethanks very much...
DeleteI have a friend who studies at PUC and he says they have a place where teachers gather with students and debate economics (called PET I believe)
Do you remember such a thing in UFRJ? just a place to sit around with teachers and debate current issues?.. cheers, always appreciate your answers
Germany ha a competitiveness problem? Seriously? Where did these guys get an education? Or are they a pack of high school drop-outs that can't read a newspaper?
ReplyDeleteGalbraith's calm is admirable. What is frustrating that's on display from these news personalities is a pathological need to believe in non-problems, and to cling to them intensely when told they are non-problems.
ReplyDeleteThink about how this show would have gone in, say, 1835. The news personalities' minds would be untroubled by the bane of "entitlements," the bane of an ascendant China, the bane of public involvement in health care threatening to squelch all "innovation" from "entrepreneurs" (notice how ideologically charged all this language is). But they would still have been nonplussed if Galbraith gave them a sanguine assessment. Instead, their concerns would have been:
-"Poor people are having too many children!!! Malthusian doom awaits!"
-"Poor people are lazy and overpaid due to the poor laws!!!"
-"Poor people's terrible morals threaten our national product!!!"
-"The proposed limitation of work time to 10 hours will extinguish profit!!!!"
-"The Corn Laws are stifling industry and capital accumulation!!!"
-"The tendency of the rate of profit to fall means doom for our nation!!!!"
-"The abolition of slavery in the West Indies has ruined industrious sugar producers!!!!"
-"The prodigality of luxury consumers is costing our businessmen precious investment money and benefiting the Frogs!!!"
Why the need to devote an apparently endogenous supply of spleen to "problems" that aren't real, when there are so many real problems to address? What in human psychology, social norms, or existing institutions explains this propensity?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_instinct
Delete...its how the media works.
Indeed, he is patient and didactic.
DeleteI want to believe it is. I love Ed Butowsky expert on this subject too.
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