Here is the thing, economies go through cycles every time, and its complicated, because in the end, it all boils down to how consumers feel about the market.
Even with a gold standard, it isn't perfect, and its more what I would want to call "Communist Cash". its based on how much resources you have, and it will still fluctuate with the value of gold, which can change with the Tinkerbell Effect (Look it up).
Gold is a shiny yellow rock, and if people think its valuable, then they will make it valued high, and thus the effect begins.
What we have today is god enough, and possibly better than the gold standard.
We shouldn't even be discussing this, and if this digital game can't accept digital currency, it doesn't add up in my mind.
Instead we should shutdown Fox News for their Conservative bias and propaganda and photo shop changes, and Likewise for MSNBC for its Liberal Bias. We
CrazyEye, the snap of fingers and magical appearance of money comes included with a lovely nationwide package of Inflation

Nobody likes Inflation.
Post-Great War Germany printed money (Magic) to pay its reparations to France... Later down the road a loaf of bread cost you around several billion Papiermark. It was cheaper to burn the money than to buy coal...
I like Fox News, it's funny to see them spout rascist things about Obama and liberals. It's also gives us all a chance to laugh at those tea party hicks.
Oh yes it is LB Musty, I will give you that one! Have you seen the wikipedia page on Fox News and their controversies? Its hilarious, they changed the faces of liberals to make them look "unlikable". There is even a book on that.
But truly, someone needs to say it out right on Fox News cameras live to say how "fair and balanced" Fox News is. News Agencies were made to give accurate, up-to-date information, and to be unbiased, not to be propaganda machines.
As long as Fox News exists there will always be an intolerant, bible thumping, right wing in America that will try to block any social progression.
That's funny about the Wikipedia page, I'll check it out.
Is there something wrong with American Conservatism?
Is there something wrong with American Conservatism?
I have an issue with the whole left liberal versus right conservative barrier altogether.
Laws and ideas should not be judged on whether they skew "left or right", "liberal or conservative", "MSNBC or Fox News". They should be judged on whether they benefit society as a whole.
At some stage Americans forgot that - now they're too obsessed about whether a policy suits their ideological beliefs to care about the pros and cons of it.
Well said Tom. I would go even further and include Religion, Socialism, Communism, Environmentalism, Capitalism etc etc......All the main forces of society should sit around the table and vote on the best policies for society. Yes it would take a while before anything would be done, but Rome wasn't built in a day and change should take longer than 5 minutes after a new leadership takes over.