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Re:When the Rich Said No to Getting Richer by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @10:05AM (#15175259)
> No economist would tell you that a high velocity of money is an inherent good

You may be confusing money and capital. Money velocity is almost always good. If someone buys infrastructure bonds and then those proceeds are spent on contractors to build infrastructure (who in turn pay suppliers and employees) you have lots of money moving with velocity.

Re:When the Rich Said No to Getting Richer by chimeracoder on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @10:41AM (#15175650)
> You may be confusing money and capital. Money velocity is almost always good.

I am not confusing anything. Increasing the velocity of money is not always good. In fact, under some schools of thought, long-term increases in the velocity of money are neutral-to-slightly-bad.

> If someone buys infrastructure bonds

Increasing the expense of saving capital means increasing the expense of bonds, which decreases the incentive to buy them in the first place.

> you have lots of money moving with velocity.

Uh, no, the tail end of that process does describe consumption behavior, but this situation actually has very little to do with the velocity of money, since we haven't addressed the propensity to spend that money a second time within any finite timespan.

Re:When the Rich Said No to Getting Richer by FuriouslyAdrift on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @05:48PM (#15187382)
I think I'm the one that made the confusing statement to begin with.

Your clarification is more in line with what I meant.