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[-] cyd@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

I mean, it's a fair question for a political leader to ask his economic advisors, no? Pretty sure Obama would have asked his advisors the same question back in 2009.

The issue, by the way, is a lot less settled than a lot of people think. Macroeconomics still seems to do a surprisingly bad job at understanding the links between inflation, interest rates, and economic activity, beyond giving some rough guidelines.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Obama would have been president for one year in 2009 and I still would hope he understood the problem with deflation.

Xi Jinping has been in power for over 12 years now.

[-] cyd@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Fears about persistent deflation in China are relatively recent. It's come up now because of the live question of whether the government should engage in a big fiscal stimulus (the same debate the US went through in 2009).

[-] ubergeek@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago

Macroeconomics still seems to do a surprisingly bad job at understanding the links between

This is because Macroeconomics isn't a science. Its gamblers attempting to create rules on "how to win at gambling" when everyone knows the only winner in gambling is the house.

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