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Re:It’s Official: This Is Now the Longest Economic Expansion... by fxj on Monday July 08, 2019 @10:06AM (#20382796)
How does this explain the loss of value of money by inflation?
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Re:It’s Official: This Is Now the Longest Economic Expansion... by gagege on Monday July 08, 2019 @10:15AM (#20382878)
More batteries, without there also being more electricity made.
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Re:It’s Official: This Is Now the Longest Economic Expansion... by fxj on Monday July 08, 2019 @10:32AM (#20383031)
There exists the law of conservation for charge (aka electricity) and energy, but no conservation law for money.

Money behaves more like entropy.

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Re:It’s Official: This Is Now the Longest Economic Expansion... by gagege on Monday July 08, 2019 @10:51AM (#20383213)
Yeah, it's definitely not an airtight metaphor.
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