Saturday, October 6, 2012

we are all taxpayers we are all bond holders:

what's wrong with that statement ?


yes you need to model the distribution of both
taxes and bond holdings
over households
 to get an idea of winners and losers that a certain policy path might generate

for instance:

we can have low   inflation  with un-pinned lending rates
and thus higher debt service  leading to higher taxes
 or
we might have lower real returns and lower taxes
 thru high  inflation with pinned lending rates

usually fellahs out to putting you inside a desirable  thought box

leave out some vital capacity of a central bank in a pure  credit money system

but another nice trick is to lump us all together and then look at only one set of consequences

or separate out the widows and orphans
or the sharks of  lower manhattan
or

ya to get your mind's arms all the way around this stuff requires a model
but of course its models that contain the magic tricks too