A prickly patriot: Palantir’s prospectus reveals losses, promise

Re:A prickly patriot: Palantir’s prospectus reveals losses, ... by logicchains on Friday August 28, 2020 @05:55AM (#24303131)

>But it has serious long term effects which are hard to understand as it’s so complex.

This paper attempts to study it: https://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt1809g.pdf, and found that artificially low interest rates create zombie firms that could not survive without such low rates, and "that zombies weigh on economic performance because they are less productive and because their presence lowers investment in and employment at more productive firms.".

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Re:A prickly patriot: Palantir’s prospectus reveals losses, ... by an_opabinia on Friday August 28, 2020 @08:23AM (#24304002)

Would you rather the funding for Palantir sit around and do nothing, or pay real human beings?

What do you think all those expenses are? Someone else’s income.

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Re:A prickly patriot: Palantir’s prospectus reveals losses, ... by lowdose on Friday August 28, 2020 @08:31AM (#24304066)

This is a false dichotomy, the point was that we should scale back all the QE shenanigans to prevent these second order effects.

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