In a digital system you wouldn't get any signal at all at an attenuation of 0.2 because that would be too small to switch bits.
It's more likely that there's a chaotic instability happening which may - or may not - lead to a dramatic state change.
But unlike chaotic processes in nature, economies don't just happen. They're engineered to work in a certain way for the benefit of certain people.
Nothing in economics is inevitable or out of human hands. The problem is making sure it's the right human hands doing the engineering.
The problem is making sure it's the right human hands doing the engineering.
Why do I get the feeling it's the Phil Graham/Grover Norquist types who will be the "human hands"? In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.