GhostOnTheHalfShell ,
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An inflationary spiral based on expectations. It is a very different one from a deflationary one.

In the case of supply chain disruption (think floods and drought) it's a supply shock and at best businesses have to scramble to adapt (invest etc) to get around the problem. But hammering COL demand is perverse.

In all cases, messing around with interest rates is largely an exercise in futility.

https://youtu.be/eX4Sh1sq6HU?si=8NUW_83dz4sfUDtE

GhostOnTheHalfShell OP ,
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And given the interplay of credit and debt to income and wealth inequality, interest rates play a central role in its growth.

Prices WRT to manufacturing don't work the ways the mainstream thinks.

https://masto.ai/@GhostOnTheHalfShell/112281799226924794

GhostOnTheHalfShell OP ,
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#mmt

I have to wonder if jacking interest rates "fixes" inflation in the sense that improved bank balance sheets allow them to more casually extend business operating credit. In short, it's only through business investment that supply constraints are alleviated.

Interest rates cause inflation from those who can raise prices and austerity from those who cannot.

Banks definitely raise prices.

gooba42 ,
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @economics-that-works Partial reserve, interest bearing loans are the driver of most increase of the money supply.

They lend $20 real money, $80 that only exists on paper. You pay back $100 plus interest of real value created by your labor. If that's $120, they flip that into $600 worth of loans and the cycle repeats.

GhostOnTheHalfShell OP ,
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Technically incorrect. Per MMT, banks don't lend from anything.

Lending creates an asset (bank wealth, but not "money") and deposit at the same time. Credit money (the deposit) is created ex-nihil.

A bank may need the Fed to give it reserves to cover the deposit if its value is to be transferred to another bank.

The lending capacity of a bank is governed by its deposit-market-share, its flows and the ability of borrowers to pay

GhostOnTheHalfShell OP ,
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Paying back the loan destroys the money created, but the bank pockets that interest charge.

Ultimately, that credit money comes straight from the Fed and government deficit.

The federal government's deficit is where banks get their money from. Out. Of. Thin. Air.

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