You’re speaking language I don’t recognize. This has nothing to do with ‘hoarding’. It’s about sticky nominal prices and fixed nominally priced debt contracts implying that when monetary velocity goes down, monetary supply should be increased to maintain the velocity of positive-sum trade at full capacity. Nothing you’ve said contradicts this, at least not in any language I recognize.
I would say your language is at least as unrecognizable if you’re going to propose measures to stop people from hoar… not spending money fast enough, while saying the problem “isn’t about that” (another red flag term), but instead “really about” this other new thing you just brought up.
Regardless, about that thing: yes, it certainly sucks when you can’t retroactively change the numbers in a contract you signed, and don’t understand how it embrittles your business plan to guarantee a stream of payments like that. However, sane policies should not favor those who failed to plan against eventualities, nor are sane economies predicated thereon.
I’m afraid that you do have to employ the concept of hoarding (or some isomorphic one) when you want to claim that welfare-enhan… positive sum trades are maximized when NGDP grows at n% like clockwork, regardless of how unmoored the economy has become, for some value of n that Sumner pulled out of thin air.
You’re speaking language I don’t recognize. This has nothing to do with ‘hoarding’. It’s about sticky nominal prices and fixed nominally priced debt contracts implying that when monetary velocity goes down, monetary supply should be increased to maintain the velocity of positive-sum trade at full capacity. Nothing you’ve said contradicts this, at least not in any language I recognize.
I would say your language is at least as unrecognizable if you’re going to propose measures to stop people from hoar… not spending money fast enough, while saying the problem “isn’t about that” (another red flag term), but instead “really about” this other new thing you just brought up.
Regardless, about that thing: yes, it certainly sucks when you can’t retroactively change the numbers in a contract you signed, and don’t understand how it embrittles your business plan to guarantee a stream of payments like that. However, sane policies should not favor those who failed to plan against eventualities, nor are sane economies predicated thereon.
I’m afraid that you do have to employ the concept of hoarding (or some isomorphic one) when you want to claim that welfare-enhan… positive sum trades are maximized when NGDP grows at n% like clockwork, regardless of how unmoored the economy has become, for some value of n that Sumner pulled out of thin air.