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Re:China's Subprime Crisis Is Here by idanoeman on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @12:32PM (#11119521)
Why would growth be "logarithmic"? Growth is exponential, with rates that yes, probably decrease over time. It's not logarithmic.
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Re:China's Subprime Crisis Is Here by busterarm on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @01:11PM (#11119898)
https://www.google.com/search?q=logarithmic+vs+exponential+c...

An exponential curve, by definition, does not decrease over time.

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Re:China's Subprime Crisis Is Here by idanoeman on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @01:26PM (#11120032)
Sure, but a piecewise-linear function on a log-log graph is still qualitatively "exponential growth", with a rate which changes over time.
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Re:China's Subprime Crisis Is Here by BookmarkSaver on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @12:48PM (#11119663)
Are you serious? As they start reaching the upper levels of wealth the ability to keep catching up decreases dramatically. When they are an impoverished country and a wealthy partner throws money at and around them, they will start catching up fast because that amount of wealth is massive compared to what they had.
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Re:China's Subprime Crisis Is Here by idanoeman on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @01:27PM (#11120046)
Logarithmic growth would literally be sub-linear growth. Historically countries growth looks something like a piecewise-linear growth in a log-log graph.
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Re:China's Subprime Crisis Is Here by GFK_of_xmaspast on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @01:31PM (#11120078)
Are you sure you're not thinking of "logistic".
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