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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  3187 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What happens now with greece? how will it affect globally and US economics

    For all that talk about opinions (as opposed to facts), you sure don't mind snarkily implying that the gold standard is (factually) a bad idea.

And I'm the only one in the world to do so.

    Or people are only suggesting a return to it because they just don't fucking understand economics?

Got it in 2.

    That's rich, considering all you really need to understand about the gold standard is that it prevents governments from printing money as they please, which means for example that there won't be any insiders with first access to newly printed money, benefiting at everyone else's expense.

And then provided an example.

And that's why you're muted and ignored now.





shiranaihito  ·  3187 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So lots of people saying that human feces tastes good would make it true in your mind?

And making an obviously true statement about the gold-standard's benefits serves as an example of someone not having a clue about economics?

Yeah, good riddance, psycho.