The same thing that hinders *anyone* from *borrowing* money they won't pay back anyway: eventually, no one will lend them anything.

As I see it, the neg intrst rates are a desperate measure here in the EU to get inflation levels to where it should be while also ensuring the econ just doesnt die

So, for one, the economy won't *just die* because wealth is actually measured in utility and fiat currency is just a means of exchange.

Then how could the US boost their spending like this? Every person with an ounce of common sense can see that this is money the US will never pay back.........

There will always be a need to exchange a few steaks for a shoe.

How you get from steaks to shoe is facilitated by money.

This is basic stuff.

I just ordered a Chinese surplus sks

Cool. Have it dropshipped to Hong Kong. They need it.

Shit, I need to get to the office.

Freedom!!

Thanks for the convo.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/deflation.asp

I know what deflationn is hon

Read it anyway.

I like had the basic econ stuff including neg intrst rates

if you knew they were poison from the start why suggest America could stop collapse wit them

then feign ignorance and pivot to unemployment

Oh did I do that? Well either oyu have misunderstood me or I have mightily and I mean MIGHTILY fucked up regarding acticulating what I wanted to say

Yes, you did say it, twice

"acticulate" better

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I mean one of my key assumptions is that neg intrst rates are bad in the sense that they are unsustainable

@Deleted User omg, you know uwe boll ?! aaargggh, is he already that infamous ? xD

Yes, we all know Uwe Boll.

@conker We all know him

He's the cinematic equivalent of Hitler with all the IPs he's butchered.

*cries in not knowing Uwe Boll*

Which does not mean that I don't envision a future where some major countries going neg (maybe not officially saying here, take money to get money but you know, EU type of shit)

I hoped his films wouldn't spread outside of germany xD

oh we're talking films, now it makes sense

Uwe Boll's films are called "money laundering in plain sight"

And to be clear here, this wont be sustainable

Well then what happens when a society can't sustain itself

But I think (hope) this shit is at least sustainable until I die

hint, it collapses

so now you understand

Because whenever "the decline" comes up it seems to be a very immediate, short term event

What the course of history has told us is what Ben Shaqueero has just brought up.

It collapses

Like every empire, as great as it was, collapsed