Hyperinflation is that transition period when a paper money is clearly failing as a store of value but has not yet died as a medium of exchange. This blog is to look at this and any other interesting economic issues. Vincent Cate
Real Free Radical http://realfreeradical.com/2014/07/02/more-on-diminishing-marginal-utility-or-this-is-why-austrian-economics-drives-me-crazy/#comment-18626
Very different sorts of predictions though! And since it sounds like he's not very interested in adding "epi-cycles" to his theory, it'll be interesting to see if in a case of clear failure, he'll wrap it up and do a post mortem on it.
Saving some links where I commented on other blogs.
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http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2014/07/resist-austrian-brain-worm.html?showComment=1404634626670#c3223917579851717055
Real Free Radical
http://realfreeradical.com/2014/07/02/more-on-diminishing-marginal-utility-or-this-is-why-austrian-economics-drives-me-crazy/#comment-18626
Also here:
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Benjamin Cole does a guest post for Marcus Nunes... apparently the Dallas Fed is saying QE helps stabilize prices:
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Thanks, commented.
DeleteHere's a different view on Japanese inflation:
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Thanks! Commented.
DeleteVincent, I thought you'd be interested: Sumner got a big write up in Vox: both a story and a separate interview. It's called
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http://www.vox.com/2014/7/8/5866695/why-printing-more-money-could-have-stopped-the-great-recession#story
Thanks Tom. I am not going to touch Sumner's this time.
ReplyDeleteI posted on Frances Coppola's blog as she has posted about inflation/hyperinflation:
http://coppolacomment.blogspot.com/2014/07/inflation-is-always-and-everywhere.html?showComment=1405046125145#c6035266044974410947
Just read it. Thanks.
DeleteBTW, Jason joins you min making a prediction for early 2016 (well, he mentioned late 2015, but close enough): you for Japan, and him for Canada:
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Very different sorts of predictions though! And since it sounds like he's not very interested in adding "epi-cycles" to his theory, it'll be interesting to see if in a case of clear failure, he'll wrap it up and do a post mortem on it.
Should be "in making" not "min making"
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