(12-27-2024, 12:31 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(12-27-2024, 10:55 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote: Everything about our monetary system is built on air, and the balloon holding it is soon to pop. No one is going to cut spending in any meaningful way because the public will immediately vote them out in favor of others who will give them freebies. We're going to print and spend and print and spend and print and spend until the faith the system rests upon is shattered beyond repair. It's already too late, we simply haven't seen the fall yet.

Lol. 
Rational investors will always seek interest. Bitcoin and gold do not pay interest. 
An economy based on fractional reserve banking will always be more nimble and fast growing than an economy based on full reserve banking. 
If the system we are using today did not work, or was destined to be replaced by a system that where the amount of currency in circulation was more fixed, we would have figured that out 500 years ago.