Thursday, December 10, 2020

A clue in the webosphere

Bottom line: banks are the economy's risk bearers. But for the past 30 years we've been trying to 'de-risk' banks by discouraging unsecured commercial lending and promoting collateralized lending. That's a recipe for instability, not stability.

There are actual mathematical proofs that make this so; for economics and avalanches, it still holds. 

Otherwise I am discovering the economists, some, are not recognizing that the right to coin is the same as devaluation and devaluation is just a more intelligent default. 

The economists and VPs at the Fed still suffer Nixon Shock Hysteria. I can see why Selgin has to be nice to them. Hysterical central bankers are a real problem, Yellen did not really suffer it, somehow missed the shock I suppose.

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