Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Yglesias spirals into endless variables

Unlike the United States, China is not burdened by massive excess capacity and idling of usable resources. Also unlike the United States, China has a very real inflation issue to deal with:
Yglesias has aleady defined monetary inflation, which he thinks is doable. So, now for bankers following the Yglesias line we now have:

nominal rate
real rates
real rates plus fake inflation
real rates plus real inflation

Whoa, stop there, head spinning We need a better theory.

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