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JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
18. Right, fasttense.
Fri Sep 28, 2012, 11:26 AM
Sep 2012

That is precisely how it works. Believe it or not, there can be too much money available for investment. And if the demand for products and services cannot absorb the products and services that the excess investment money produces, then you get gambling and racing after illusory profits.

That's one of the reasons that bubbles occur. The amount of money available for investment exceeds the amount of money that can be, in the long-term, profitably invested.

And, that is why Democrats' economic theories work and Republican ones don't.

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