Robin Forlonge Patterson
@RFPatterson@mastodon.nz
Grew up in #Dunedin (except 2 years at #Orawia), #dux #OBHS 1958, #BA (#Otago). #married, moved to #Plimmerton then #Feilding. #Greenie. #Conservationist. #Grandfather. #Genealogist. #Fandom fan. #FreeCol. #fedi22 searchable tfr https://justmytoots.com/@RFPatterson@mastodon.nz https://justmytoots.com/@RFPatterson@mastodon.social https://justmytoots.com/@RFPatterson@indieweb.social
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https://keenlens.substack.com/p/the-bank-of-england-admitted-in-2014
'I see everyday #politicians repeat like parrots #economic propositions they don't even start to understand, defending a model that a central #bank admitted was wrong over twelve years ago. ... The #Greens propose actual structural change and get labelled "communist" by people who have never read a balance sheet or a #Lenin text. The heterodox approach #predicted #2008, predicted the #housing #crisis, and predicted the current private #debt trap. The orthodox models predicted none of it ...'
'The orthodox model was declared wrong by the Bank of #England in 2014. Their paper “#Money Creation in the Modern Economy” stated plainly: #banks do not lend out deposited #reserves in a multiplier chain. Banks create #deposits when they make #loans ...'
(NZ's Social Credit Party got a Court to agree five decades earlier.)
'The consequences are not theoretical or academic. When you worship the wrong model, you can’t do anything else than design the wrong #policy. You pretend not to see the #monopoly extracting over 6 billions from a #mortgage market they control 87% of. You don’t see that raising rates shift #income from #borrowers to banks and does not touch the supply of housing stock. You end up believing the #household metaphor is literal — that the Crown pockets are empty — when #NZ’s #Crown debt is 44% of #GDP...'
(The OECD average is about twice that.)
'... #Galileo was almost burned at stake for simply asking the #Inquisition #judges to look in the telescope. Same old, same old.'
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'Gentlemen, it is clear cut #class #warfare, and the #vested interests are so encrusted in #society that they are winning. Remember that their main weakness is in numbers, they are damaging and literally #robbing the majority of us, of the New Zealand society and brainwashing many trees to think that voting for the axe is the #prudent, #family sensible thing to do. The only chance you have is when numbers talk. The #election is coming...'