[itsoktocry]

>*The economy is stabilizing.*

The economy is never "stable". It is constantly in a cycle of ups and downs, over-investment and under-investment, easy money and tight money...

The current state is no more "normal" than any other period.

[mym1990]

The economy most definitely experiences stability when people and business are able to have a reasonable amount of confidence that things don't hit the fan at any second now. This stability allows people to invest with more freedom, take more risk, and grow at a stable rate.

Of course this behavior eventually overheats...but in terms of expectations there is definitely a stable state to an economy, even if it only last a few years.

[SantalBlush]

>The economy is never "stable". It is constantly in a cycle of ups and downs, over-investment and under-investment, easy money and tight money...

That's pedantic and beside the point. The question is whether the economy experiences periods of relative stability. The answer is yes.

[hn_go_brrrrr]

What's the difference between stability and growth? If the economy isn't growing, people consider it "stagnant". Shrinking is "a recession".

[rightbyte]

Zero is a special value you know, since zero times anything is zero.

Edit: Except infinity ...

[bjornsing]

In the limit 0*x tends to zero as x tends to infinity.

[lavp]

An infinite amount of nothing is still nothing.

[rightbyte]

According to my limited understanding it is NaN.