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expedition32today at 2:30 PM4 repliesview on HN

A perpetual boom bust cycle? Sounds healthy.


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fookertoday at 3:34 PM

Counterintuitively that’s the definition of healthy in economics.

If you don’t have busts, at some point your system will abruptly/violently cease to exist.

igsomethingtoday at 2:44 PM

It is a negative feedback loop, so yes, it makes systems stable.

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raincoletoday at 4:02 PM

This is exactly how real world economy is (ideally) meant to work.

AlOwaintoday at 2:40 PM

Regression to the mean. The alternative is no adjustment at all.