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Creating doesn’t drive the economy. There were touch screen smartphones before the iPhone but nobody consumed them. Really the economy is a circle, it starts where you want to start looking at it. Kind of like the food chain.

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Saying that "consumption" drives the economy basically says that you should take money away from the people who earned it if they are savers and give it to people who spend every cent they get their hands on the instant they get their hands on it.

Walmart believes in that model. A large percentage of transfer payments wind up in their account the day the payments are made.