Questions Answered
Questions answered by Joydeep Bhattacharya
- Revenue Growth And Inflation
- A nationwide, federally regulated wealth cap?
- What exactly is the difference between a production and consumption externality?
- Which has more impact on the market, supply or demand?
- Any reason why the Fed doesn't keep interest rates high at all times?
- Why prices increase when demand is high?
- What is steady-state level of output per worker?
- How Can I Create a Currency and Make It Have Value?
- Is it bad that the Fed discontinued the reserve ratio?
- Is the US a consumer economy?
- Is it within the realm of the social science of economics to consider social justice?
- Save lives or open up?
- Can the Fed erase/reduce public debt?
- Why would the stock market react negatively to the increased supply and lower price of oil?
- Do minimum wage increases hurt wages of above minimum-wage workers?
- Who reads all those online receipts?
- Since the U.S. has "fiat" currency, why does the Treasury sell securities?
- Is a maximum wage viable?
- Why personal finance strategies are not (or are) beneficial on a larger economic scale?
- When the GDP is calculated for a country, is inflation taken into account?
- Is debt reflected as a net economic positive in the GDP?
- What would happen if people living in poverty were forgiven their small loans?
- Inflation - why do we need it?
- How can one help reduce corruption?
- Are goods and services purchased to comply with regulations included in GDP?
- Does the term "social welfare" have any negative connotation in economics?
- Would the minimum wage rise if immigration is slowed?
- Which income class do I belong in Long Island?
- What, if anything, does the cost of catastrophic events statements in the news media mean?
- Does Washington make policy changes without sound fiscal management?
- Government acquisition of goods and services with auditors?
- Why is deflation bad?
- Would it cause inflation if the Federal Reserve printed a bunch of money and gave to someone secretly?
- What if the government bought up all bad debt?
- Are there any studies that address the weighted effects of different causes for loss of manufacturing jobs?
- Is there an economic theory about the relative value of money amongst different strata of the population?
- Is Bitcoin Money?
- Should employees in third world nations get paid in US dollars?
- Is recession the opposite of inflation?
- How high can our national debt get (as a % of GDP) before it will be a threat to our financial stability?
- If budgets have to be approved by Congress, why does the Congress again have to approve an increase in borrowing limits?
- Why do national government's now borrow exclusively from the private sector instead of from their own central banks?
- What if anyone were allowed to print money?
- What's the best place to put your money to preserve its value?
- How does the government's disposal/burning of elephant ivory protect the market from illegal trading/poaching?
- What would happen if all the unemployed started their own small businesses?
- Why can't we just print more money, since it really isn't representative of anything of value?
- Would it be bad if rich countries print money and instead of doing the QE inserted the money on a bottom up approach?
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