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0 pointspaganel4y ago0 comments

> not this Frankenstein economy that's been created since at least 2008 if not earlier

For what it's worth the US has economically out-competed the European Union in that time-frame, with the US basically following Keynes and the UE going the austerity route most of the time (and only at times, begrudgingly, also following Keynes as a result of the Americans doing it first). There's also China that has out-competed the US and the UE both, but that's another story.

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slv774y ago

Both the US and China have paid the costs as that liquidity has flooded into speculative assets such as land which has increased wealth inequality. In addition it likely has resulted in misallocation of capital and a future tidal wave of bad debt.

While households are typically cash constrained economies operating in a fiat system rarely are because cash is essentially created at will by the banking industry. Economic constraints are largely due to the ability to identify, fund and execute in good investments that will provide a reasonable return on capital given the risk.

Is there any investment area in the economy that is currently constrained by the lack of cash?

imtringued4y ago

That's just the nature of imbalanced trade. The US reserve currency mandates permanent trade imbalances. It's a double edged sword.

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