Laffer: Get Ready for Inflation and Higher Interest Rates

Quote from ByLoSellHi:

that is an extreme range in a short period of time for someone who is accepted as and deemed credible.

Deemed credible by whom? You need to stop accepting the conventional wisdom and tugging your forelock to someone's presumed authority just because they are promoting snake oil on TV or the newspapers.
 
The Fed is not the BOJ, the root behind an after the recession inflation argument is the plain fact that the fed will NEVER stop trying. If printing $100T and dropping from helicopters wont create inflation then we are living in fantasy land

Almost all fiat currencies have gone down over the long-run(inflation), the only one exception is that japanese yen, one could pay attention to the exception, but whats wrong with paying attention to the rule

The BOJ said Paul Krugman's suggestion that they should print gigantic levels of yen was too 'risk'. The Fed is not the BOJ, bernanke wouldn't have much problem with it, in fact it was what he recommended to the BOJ
 
Quote from Daal:

The Fed is not the BOJ, the root behind an after the recession inflation argument is the plain fact that the fed will NEVER stop trying. If printing $100T and dropping from helicopters wont create inflation then we are living in fantasy land

Almost all fiat currencies have gone down over the long-run(inflation), the only one exception is that japanese yen, one could pay attention to the exception, but whats wrong with paying attention to the rule

The BOJ said Paul Krugman's suggestion that they should print gigantic levels of yen was too 'risk'. The Fed is not the BOJ, bernanke wouldn't have much problem with it, in fact it was what he recommended to the BOJ

As I mentioned, the reason why BOJ monetary easing failed to create inflation was due to idiosyncratic characteristics of the banking sector in the country.

Their banks had too much bad debt, and simply couldn't lend -- even at lower borrowing rates.
 
Quote from ByLoSellHi:


High unemployment + high inflation + high interest rates + stagnant (or falling, most likely) wages

It is very unlikely that those four will happen at the same time , imo
Did it ever happened within 40-60 years ?
 
Quote from Cutten:

Deemed credible by whom? You need to stop accepting the conventional wisdom and tugging your forelock to someone's presumed authority just because they are promoting snake oil on TV or the newspapers.

That's a fair point.

Now that you take it to that level, Laffer gets way too much credibility because of the Laffer Curve.
 
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