@Kamazeustra
The question before us is: should we start a debate about here and can we keep it to sensible level?
If you have (I presume) some economic insight/background to not draw extensive debate I will simply say that my beliefs are in many cases similar to Austrian School. Although my background is mostly in quantitative methods and data modeling, personally I oppose its use for policy-making in macro scale for several reasons. I also believe that gold standard is not necessary if competing, independent exists and is allowed to function freely. Alas, it is not the case.
As much as I enjoy it (a lot), I’m somehow sadden that capitalism is mistaken for throwing excess money at the problem. Indeed printing money is one of the worst threats to capitalism, unless…
You know, Filthy, you could have fired that money beam of yours out into the real world for a bit, then gone out and collected the bits you made to become even richer.
