Liberalism and inflation

 Heres a good easy explanation of inflation . Which is increasing the money supply . Rising prices are a result of inflation not inflation itself.


While the war in the Ukraine does have some effect restricting oil supply . Theres more at play .

Hes talking about USA but same thing happened in NZ. NZ printed and gave out 50 billion dollars without increasing production during covid19 . We also had investors with lots of cheap money and no production investing in houses massively pushing prices up which the podcast missed.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIbNJCSCEjk

Neo- liberalism we live and suffer under which has proved a complete failure is different than the 1920s bubble under laizze-faire liberalism that led to the 1929 great Depression. They still advocate privatisation by selling all state assets accept police, courts and prisons and military to protect their capital , reduce workers pay and  conditions and reduce tax on the corporations and vey rich . It differs because Milton Friedman one of the instigators of neo liberalism who first practiced his neo-liberalism ideology under murderous dictator Pinochet without resistence because no one else took him seriously, argued for govt to help corret the markets to make them work , especially by monetary policy which means altering the money supply especially by altering interest rates to guide investment and the economy.


- USA /NZ had low interest rates since 2000 dotcom bubble burst in USA to stimulate investment and the economy. They are raised now to kill the bubble.

- USA under both political parties has been printing money faster and more than NZ .

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