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Comment by expedition32

19 hours ago

A perpetual boom bust cycle? Sounds healthy.

Counterintuitively that’s the definition of healthy in economics.

If you don’t have busts, at some point your system will abruptly/violently cease to exist.

It is a negative feedback loop, so yes, it makes systems stable.

  • Technically you could have negative feedback result in a system that diverges further and further from some baseline, until it eventually collapses. This is usually because the gain of the feedback signal is too high.