• Boozilla@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Conventional economists spinning deflation as “almost always bad” has always felt like pro-corporate voodoo bullshit to me. Especially when the inflation that proceeded it was driven by boardroom greed and pathological profit-seeking.

    I’m not saying deflation is always good. But right now it would likely just be a correction back to the usual Reaganomics greed instead of the post-pandemic let’s-burn-it-all-down levels of greed.

    • isles@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      I think most things economists say is pro-corporate voodoo bullshit. It’s a social science, they’re the priests of the ruling class.