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Re:Pricing Money: A Beginner's Guide to Money, Bonds, Future... by consilient on Saturday June 17, 2023 @02:25AM (#36367829)
Ownership and allocation mechanism are mostly independent axes. Consider for instance Norway (extensive state ownership but highly market-oriented; in certain respects more liberal than the US) contemporary China (state control of most major firms but mostly market-oriented), Gaullist France (nationalized infrastructure plus minority state shares in other sectors, markets supplemented with indicative planning and state-directed investment) or the US during WWII (almost entirely private, full-blown central planning).

Venezuela's level of interventionism is unremarkable by the historical standards of the developed world. The problem is their poor choice of interventions.

Re:Pricing Money: A Beginner's Guide to Money, Bonds, Future... by heywhatupboys on Saturday June 17, 2023 @05:35AM (#36368687)
> in certain respects more liberal than the US

why would this be surprising? Don't believe for a second that the USA has a generally more liberal financial market than Scandinavia. Employment laws, trade, regulations, etc. are often wayyy less strict in Scandinavia.

Re:Pricing Money: A Beginner's Guide to Money, Bonds, Future... by consilient on Sunday June 18, 2023 @08:05PM (#36385812)
It shouldn't be surprising, but American political discourse has unfortunately latched onto an extremely simplistic univariate model of economic policy. There's a common background assumption that redistribution, public ownership, fiscal policy, and all varieties of regulation rise or fall together.
Re:Pricing Money: A Beginner's Guide to Money, Bonds, Future... by heywhatupboys on Monday June 19, 2023 @07:17AM (#36389721)
good point. But HN should do better than that
Re:Pricing Money: A Beginner's Guide to Money, Bonds, Future... by CRConrad on Friday June 23, 2023 @11:50AM (#36448564)
Employment laws “wayyy less strict” in Scandinavia than in the USA?

Where in Scandinavia would that be?!?