Zeev, its the weekend and ok to loosen up and being out of sight of those clients looking for Deep Think Scientist Zeev, you can now be yourself as the Mad But In Control Scientist.
So lets take a really off the wall idea and see if it will fly or crash & burn.
In a world, in a place, far far away from Earth, a look alike USA that is like this one, with the difference that the money creating and control and regulations was sold off by the government the same way as ours did with the post office, and its now in the private sector, as follows.....
.......Under a pure commodity money, the money-supply process is totally privatized: The mining, minting, certification, and storage of the money commodity as well as the issuance of fully covered, i.e., 100-percent gold-backed, bank notes and deposits are carried out by private firms operating in a free market.
The virtue of a genuine, 100-percent gold standard is precisely that it establishes a free market in the supply of money and, in doing so, brings about a complete abolition of the governmental monopoly in this most sensitive and vital area of the market economy.
wild doug |