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Economy => Economics => Topic started by: flix on September 07, 2011, 01:51:44 PM



Title: Krugman vs. Bitcoin
Post by: flix on September 07, 2011, 01:51:44 PM
In "Golden Cyberfetters"
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/07/golden-cyberfetters/

Paul Krugman knocks one of bitcoin's best features, that it cannot be printed at will by politicians and Nobel prize winners at a central bank.

As a Keynesian, any fixed rules which cannot be manipulated at will by central planners are obviously anathema to him.


Title: Re: Krugman vs. Bitcoin
Post by: hugolp on September 07, 2011, 06:37:54 PM
Its being discussed all over:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=42004.0

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=41994.0