| ▲ | klrefg 15 hours ago | |
Deflationary currencies don’t lead to price stability in non static economies. Just look at the 1800s with the constant violent price swings and western economies being stuck in a permanent boom and bust cycle that culminated in the Great Depression (or more accurately the Great Depression II) > People seem not to have a justification for why deflation They obviously do. Because it disproportionately disadvantages debtors, makes investment much riskier and rewards rentiers, therefore reducing the economic productivity. > one of these terrible deflationary events happen the country involved tends to end up a really nice place to live Yeah, I think you need some additional arguments and data to establish that there is a causal link between these two. Same could be said about the economic booms in the US after WW1 and WW2 (to an extent the Civil War as well). | ||
| ▲ | smallmancontrov 13 hours ago | parent [-] | |
Yep, and with China installing gold vaults everywhere it seems likely that the course of events will be an inflationary episode in the West followed by a dive back into Kindleberger Problems as they try to eat their cake and have it too. | ||