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    1. Patri Friedman‏ @patrissimo Jun 29

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      Yes, I understand the extreme anti-fiat view. I've heard it from radical goldbugs & Austrians for decades. It's not supported by even mainstream Austrians or fringe-but-reputable economists. Or evidence. It's moral outrage masquerading as empirical claims. https://twitter.com/paul_btc/status/1012769551002619904 …

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    2. Patri Friedman‏ @patrissimo Jun 29

      Sure, inflation is a morally questionable hidden tax that distorts the economy. That doesn't make it infinitely bad. Notice the loaded language "out of the charts" (tautologically false, just adjust chart scale), the exaggerated claim that not even one millennial can buy a house.

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    3. Patri Friedman‏ @patrissimo Jun 29

      This is right-wing virtue signaling, their equivalent of leftist moral outrage. Inflation=bad, so we must only talk about the bad things it does to bad people & good things to good people. To mention limits to it's badness is to defend badness which is heresy.

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      Patri Friedman‏ @patrissimo Jun 29

      Sorry "Currency Justice Warriors", but some of us have been sorting through fringe economic theories for 20 years. We don't take right-wing bluster any better than left-wing bluster. We use models and examine facts. We know outrage is the sign of an emotionally-driven position.

      3:25 PM - 29 Jun 2018 from Mountain View, CA
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        1. Patri Friedman‏ @patrissimo Jun 29

          CPI is bullshit. Inflation is a sneaky way to steal. That doesn't mean it is infinitely bad, or unmeasurable, or hurts all good people, or doesn't have benefits or anything other than...it distorts the economy a bit and steals a bit of value. Finis.

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        2. Jal (aka Juice)‏ @SoakerPatoshi Jun 29
          Replying to @patrissimo @MimeticValue

          20 years. Wow. Thats the time ago Nash started talking about an international ecurrency with a stable supply and how it will asymptotically force central banks to print inter-relationall stable money. Looks like you are the ignorant one.

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        3. Patri Friedman‏ @patrissimo Jun 29
          Replying to @SoakerPatoshi @MimeticValue

          Umm...people have been talking about hard money & currency debasement for millennia. Austrian economics has had sophisticated critiques of inflation for 60+ yrs (with roots in 19th C). Man, kids these days think they invented everything...

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        2. LvM‏ @Wistful_Thinkin Jun 29
          Replying to @patrissimo

          All theft helps some people and hurts some people. Just because it is only skimming a little from everyone, and even if it pushes along a sluggish economy, doesn’t give the rulers the right to do it. Also most empirical facts ignore the unseen.

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        3. Patri Friedman‏ @patrissimo Jun 29
          Replying to @Wistful_Thinkin

          I didn't say anyone had the right to do it. Or not. I don't find rights-based discussions to be very productive. Just saying the empirical consequences are neither massive nor simple nor uniformly anti-poor, etc.

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