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To: KarlInOhio
It's the old 1930s theory that, if people and businesses anticipate coming inflation, they'll go out now and spend like mad, boosting GDP. It has never worked.
8 posted on 05/03/2012 7:12:42 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

When I took econ in the mid to late 80s, the Phillips curve was still in the text books but in the lectures it was treated as a historical theory that had been overwhelmed by new evidence like luminiferous ether in physics or Lamarckian inheritance in biology. It looks like it is either coming back, or at least those who think they can profit (either monetarily or in power) from running the printing presses at ludicrous speed are digging it back up.


13 posted on 05/03/2012 7:26:48 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (You only have three billion heartbeats in a lifetime.How many does the government claim as its own?)
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