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Antony, thanks for doing the AMA! I am an small business guy in the private sector, but I have always been fascinated by economics/finance. Three questions:

1) Do you think Keynesian multipliers ever exceed 1?

2) What are your thoughts on the Chicago School vs. the Austrian School?

3) There is quite a bit of derision in the /r/Economics sub about the Austrian school as being outdated and not quantifiable. What would you say in response to that criticism?

Wordpress developer, here. First, thanks for all your work, Matt!

I have so many questions! But I will stick to just one. Why does WP replicate so much PHP core with its own functions? For example, you use WP_query instead of PDO? Why use special WP include functions instead of PHP includes? This makes it harder for PHP developers to switch to WP, because they have to relearn functions. It also seems like WP is duplicating existing core functions. What is the reasoning behind these actions?

edit - OK, one more question ... Migrating sites from my XAMPP server to the client's host sucks! Are there plans to make this process easier?

I think he's saying that there is still an inflection point where debt/GDP ratio causes negative growth. It might not be at 90%, but it will certainly still exist at some point.