| Kasz216 said:
The Bretton Wood's system was argueablly the most successful, but that basically relied on having one huge nation (The USA) able to basically dictate all the economic stuff going on, and being willing to take loses of money to have that control as other nations would buy low and sell high. Were there a unproduceable, indestructable asset. That'd be another thing.
As for the bolded. Less compromise.... more a populace or government bleeding the country dry. The most important function the Fed does is that they hold on to a portion of the money in the world... and lend that to banks quickly, because otherwise it's too complicated for banks to lend to each other in a timely manner. Fed actually makes the government a lot of money that way.
Now countires that don't have a big wall between government and their central banks? First time they hit hard times or want to win oer voteres? They basically cash out some of their investments to buy a new swimming pool. Then you eventually don't have enough actual hard assets to keep your banking system run smoothly. You get all kinds of hiccups, and could basically face widescale bank failure that effects things way more then the financial crisis ever threatened.
You end up with a country like Venezuela that steals money from it's central banks to buy votes. |
How is it any different from the spontaneous order found in other "free-markets" upon which "economic laws" are based on?
Here's an interesting article on the topic.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2013/03/01/rethinking-money-the-rise-of-hayeks-private-competing-currencies/
Yes, a Federal Reserve system acts as a barrier that isn't found with a national bank, but it still nevertheless enables the government to grow with very few limitations (you said it yourself in the bolded), putting the burden on the constituent individuals which fall under such an authority/government and leading to more drastic bursts. One can argue that it can be tamed or controlled, but the issue is that it isn't being tamed and controlled, and that is because that same "populous" group is enabling it as the hypermajority that they are in the U.S government. This includes the moderate Republicans/Democrats and the far left. The manipulation of the economy to supporting a welfare-warfare state substantiates this. I would also like to re-emphasize that the limitations on the exchange of information between banks was again per (state) government regulation, and not inherent in their nature (should be even less so with futher advancements made in technology.) The only argument for a national central banking system is the greater elasticity, but the decentralized systems had greater inelasticity due to restrictions placed on their expansion and structure, anyway. If a central banking system is the most efficient, then economics tell us that in a free-market, that will be the end-results, as it's the most efficient. There is no need for government to come in and centralize the system, that is, if it is indeed the most efficient way to go about things. If we are to refute classical/neo-classical economics and go with the marxist or keynesian vew that government has legitimate efficient functions in the economy other than reducing cartels through ant-trust legislation (which in itself is an argument in liberal economics), then that is a whole different matter.










