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by coldtea 1193 days ago
Combine it with another novel idea: the gold standard.
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I know it's very trendy to advocated for that, but we do know that the removal of the gold standard was an attempt to keep the United State economy from melting down too, right? It's not actually a solution to all our economic woes. Sure, removing the gold standard created a new class of problems but going back isn't going to stop the ones we used to have.
>I know it's very trendy to advocated for that, but we do know that the removal of the gold standard was an attempt to keep the United State economy from melting down too, right?

I'd rather it was let to melt down, learned the lesson, and we went for a more sustainable model.

This is very easy to advocate for when it's never actually going to come to pass.