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> And more generally, determining the optimal level of the money supply to match the needs of a dynamic economy is not trivial

No, we don't need some grand wizards in an ivory tower to finely tune the amount of money in the economy, that idea is absurd. The economy has worked fine for thousands of years before they started doing that. In fact, since they started doing it we've seen ever growing boom and bust cycles.



...there were a lot of boom and bust cycles before the federal reserve


This is the OPPOSITE of the truth. Boom and bust cycles were much worst in the pre-central bank world.


Are you saying the global financial crisis was MUCH smaller than previous busts?


I would say that... Sure stock values and other over valued assets dropped. But how many people actually starved to death?




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