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What if someone finds a gigantic Deposit

of paper? And starts printing off currency? What makes gold valuable is that it is scarce, we know with quite a bit of certainty how much is below and above the ground, and is has a background of this usage. As we are seeing with "quantitative easing," paper is not scarce.




I the people lose trust in a country the currency goes down exactly because of this. This can also be a good thing, for example when the economy is not competitive and the government has always enough money to provide the basic needs. Not comparable to a resource.

Everybody thinks he knows about economics but does lack basic theories, i don't want explain in every discussion how inflation works.

PS: Please stop downvoting me just because you disagree.


I understand the benefits of monetary inflation in an expanding economy. I also think that "the spontaneous remonetization of precious metals is a Nash equilibrium," or in other words, inevitable. Read this, from 2006:

Why the Global Financial System is About To Collapse

http://johnlaw0.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/why-the-global-fina...


I have not enough time right now to read this whole thing but i browsed it, there is enough stuff to argue with he mentions taxes and all the important elements but it sounds alarmist nonetheless.

Maybe i have to take that back, but i have this problem very often when i argue about these things.


Please have a read and let me know what you think. It might be alarmist but he makes a great argument.


Judging by the last millenium of history, the inevitability of spontaneous remonetization is greatly exaggerated.


First, it has happened within my grandparents' lifetime.(Weimar Germany, for example.)

Second, inevitability doesn't have a timeline. It could be in a thousand years or tomorrow; that's not the point. The point is: it is expected to happen at some point.




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