Re:The Demoralization is just Beginning
by desumeku on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @10:54AM
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> Inflation sucks but deflation is a death spiral.
Do you actually have any evidence for this? Considering that we haven't experienced deflation in nearly 100 years, and all. The USA certainly wasn't "death spiraling" before we went off the gold standard, quite the contrary. But now it seems we are.
Because the kind of USD used in global trade (Eurodollars) has been decoupled from the Fed and its gold standard for a while before Bretton-Woods was abandoned through various mechanisms.
Inflation sucks but deflation is a death spiral. There is some more nuance, but most economists would agree that deflation is a lot scarier in general than inflation due to its feedback loop.
Moreover, the reason why we keep getting rampant inflation is more due to neoliberalism and neoconservative economic/fiscal policy rather than modern monetary theory and Keynesian monetary policy. If anything, these monetary policies have massively reduced the amount of inflation we have been feeling for the past several years.