If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.
We are living in an age of bad money. I originally thought that the rot set in in 1971 when Richard Nixon explicitly decoupled the US-$ from its legal gold anchor, in recognition that the USA’s deficits and debt, partially necessitated (if that is the correct word for a senseless and unnecessary foreign military adventure) by the exploding cost of finan…
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