Clint Ballinger
@clintballinger
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The emerged economy | The built economy Book: https://t.co/JGGNnF2R41
Joined December 2009
There is a pervasive, annoyingly simplistic, & neverending online debate: Libertarian/free market vs socialism/communism, as if these are stark choices 1/.
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RT @mattparlmer: I don’t think the average American realizes how much we’ve been mogged by China over the last decade in the global eye, ou….
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“when we look at the World Bank database, there is no evidence that higher interest rates down-regulate inflation. If anything, the evidence suggests that rate hikes make inflation worse.” .#econtwitter.
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There is strong evidence that higher interest rates don’t mitigate inflation. Instead, they might make it worse. I wade through the details here.
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RT @haugejostein: This is one of the books that inspired me to pursue a master's degree in development economics. I remember being consume….
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RT @MMTBitcoiner: Very few understand that @MMTmacrotrader & @RelearningEcon are onto something massively consequential with regard to thei….
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RT @clintballinger: In reading a history of the US Treasury, I realized the 1913 creation of the Fed largely was just a much needed update….
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RT @clintballinger: United States Code: .Seems like ultimately the executive branch could assert a lot of control via .“12 U.S.C. 246 - Pow….
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RT @joseph_rohrbach: @Jackbmeyer some economists seem to have an almost absurd naïveté abt how politics works - that it's all maximally rat….
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RT @heimbergecon: We have a new paper on the overstated effects of conventional monetary policy on output and prices. Results reported in t….
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RT @jryancollins: Lots of questions about the effectiveness of monetary policy in dealing with supply-side shocks recently, implicitly assu….
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RT @RelearningEcon: In a monetary economy, saving adjusts after investment, not before. Banks create credit to finance investment. That m….
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RT @MMTmacrotrader: The idea that interest rates ever get pushed artificially low is beyond stupid. There are $3T of reserves in the bankin….
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RT @RelearningEcon: Mainstream econ says:.Households save → banks lend savings → firms invest. Robinson flipped it: investment comes first….
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RT @timalthoff: I’m excited to share our new @Nature paper 📝, which provides strong evidence that the walkability of our built environment….
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RT @ProfSteveKeen: 1/ I've documented how 30+ years of privatization promises have turned into economic disasters. The evidence is overwhel….
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