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With most people, I would agree with your sympathetic approach But he's a "Harvard economist", and he has had ten years to do the research to earn his presumably-very-high salary. Before sending that tweet, he could have reached out to Bitcoin experts to really understand where he had made (and is still making) mistakes Anyway, this is all extremely bullish for the BTC price. The current price is low because of all this ignorance 😃

I don't think that's true. It's possible to simultaneously be pro-Bitcoin and also believe in Keynes's approach for the pre-Bitcoin world There will be multiple fiat currencies in use, alongside Bitcoin, for multiple decades to come and it's not clear how best to manage that. It'll be a new world, and I don't think we can blindly accept or dismiss any existing approach. Austrian economics might not be the perfect approach, even though some bitcoiners love it

Rogoff wasn't particularly Keynesian. In fact, his approach was anti-Keynesian during the crisis after 2008

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