Unlike the days of the gold standard, it is impossible for the Federal Reserve to go bankrupt; it holds the legal monopoly of counterfeiting (of creating money out of thin air) in the entire country.
- Murray Rothbard
First it was a game, a wonderful game, but just a game. Then, as fiction morphed into reality, after the financial crisis of 2008/2009, the game of Monopoly became exactly what the central banks are now, the greatest Monopoly on Earth. Imagine for a moment, not one elected official, every member appointed by their respective governments and,