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cthulu2016

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8. Yes. In one eight year period Japan

Reply to Lefty Thinker (Reply #7)

Tue Jan 29, 2013, 04:57 PM

Jan 2013

doubled her money supply while experiencing deflation in five of those years and inflation of about 1% the others. (IIRC)

It is difficult to create inflation in a down economy.

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. cthulu2016 Jan 2013 #1

It's a fascinating modern world we live in, ain't it? Recursion Jan 2013 #2

The lack of private demand for credit is often the missing piece in explanations cthulu2016 Jan 2013 #3

That was the concise sentence I've been trying to form for months now! Recursion Jan 2013 #4

That works for now librabear Jan 2013 #5

Keynes works fine in Greece also cthulu2016 Jan 2013 #6

This is, regretfully, incorrect Lefty Thinker Jan 2013 #7

Yes. In one eight year period Japan cthulu2016 Jan 2013 #8

What happened after that? librabear Jan 2013 #9

Here ya' go cthulu2016 Jan 2013 #10