How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes


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how an economy grows

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s discussed earlier, the United States experienced 
sustained defl ation for most of its history. Then 
in 1913, the Federal Reserve was established. The notes it 
issued, which promised to pay the bearer gold on demand
replaced the private bank notes then in circulation, which 
offered similar guarantees. But as soon as the Fed came on 
the scene, prices started rising steadily.
The Fed, as the Federal Reserve is known, was originally 
given the mission of establishing an “elastic money supply.” 
The idea would be that the Fed could expand or contract the 
amount of money in circulation to correspond with economic 
activity. It was thought that such movements could hold 
prices steady through good times and bad. 
Even if such a mission were a good idea to begin with, it’s 
easy to see that the Fed has utterly failed in accomplishing it. 
Over the past 100 years, the dollar has lost more than 95 
percent of its value. So much for price stability! The truth is 
that the Fed now exists for the sole purpose of providing the 
infl ation necessary to allow the government to spend more 
than it collects in taxes. 
During the Depression, President Roosevelt decided to 
devalue the dollar against gold. In order to pull this off, the 
government had to control the entire gold market, and for a 
time the government made it illegal to own gold coins. Later 
on the ability to redeem the notes for gold was restricted to just 
banks, then to just foreign banks, and then fi nally to no one. 

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