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mikewarot 9 hours ago

That's the "Cantillon Effect"[1]

  Cantillon suggested that inflation occurs gradually and that the new supply of money has a localised effect on inflation, effectively originating the concept of non-neutral money. Furthermore, he posited that the original recipients of new money enjoy higher standards of living at the expense of later recipients. The concept of relative inflation, or a disproportionate rise in prices among different goods in an economy, is now known as the Cantillon effect.
Because we got very good at manufacturing, that brought in hard currency, and raised the standard of living. This then was balanced out by that money then being spend on goods from abroad that used to be sourced locally, hollowing out the manufacturing base. Until the base collapses, and reforms again elsewhere, and the cycle repeats.

If the US had competent leadership, they could re-shore things, and benefit from China's upcoming collapse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cantillon#Monetary_the...