Paul Krugman

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Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

That's why we call it a liquidity trap. Normal monetary policy becomes irrelevant. Huge increases in M0 had basically no effect on GDP. I'll get into slight complications in a second, but that's the key insight 7/ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 26, 2021

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And that in turn meant that at the margin M0 and Treasuries were perfect substitutes — two assets with the same (zero) rate of return. Conventional open-market operations therefore did nothing — investors were already saturated with liquidity, increasing M0 added nothing 6/ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 26, 2021

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And when M0 doesn't affect GDP, a rise in M0 will, as a matter of arithmetic, reduce the ratio of GDP to M0 — velocity. But it makes no sense to focus on that ratio 8/ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 26, 2021