[John Valentine]

You are the one pronouncing that the economic theory and practice of the past 200 years is wrong and should be stood on it's head, so why don't you go first.

But, I'll endorse the article linked in post 21 above as quite representative of mainstream thought on the subject.

[ApesForEvolution]

That's what I thought. For the record, the monetary system in both theory and practice changed dramatically in this country just 70 short years ago. The nation was taken off the gold reserve. The dollar only remains as strong as the nation's strength is to dominate our world. After Sept. 11, 2001, it appears that the dollar can be weakened very substantially and very quickly.