" If we are having problems with currencies, specifically currency devaluation, then it follows the solution will not be to do more of what we are already doing (printing money, devaluating currency), but to do something different.
The different thing to do in this case, would be to return to the Gold Standard, and forbid fractional reserve banking (along with usury, while we are at it).Who would ‘win’? Well, the average person, of course, as your wages and savings would not lose purchasing power. Who would lose the most from this proposition? Banks. Specifically central banks, who would be severely limited in terms of their ability to manipulate the currency or the economy. Banks in general would be forced to change their entire business model..."
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