It really is too bad most Americans are either oblivious or else A-okay with macroeconomic central planning based on institutionalized fraud, counterfeiting and embezzlement.
It's sad but true: Americans 200 years ago were much more informed and engaged concerning monetary and banking policy and as to the true nature of fiat money and state-sanctioned banking cartels, than are Americans today.
Central planning does not work! Period! Not in monetary and banking policy, any more than in any other sector of the economy. Sound 100% commodity-based money under decentralized free-market banking is the only policy by which we can hope to avoid the systematic fraud, institutionalized plunder, regressive wealth redistribution, and hidden taxation mechanisms that constitute the chronic inflation and boom-bust business cycles of the fiat-money/state-sanctioned central banking cartel system.