Oddbean new post about login | logout The dollar is just the best option in a big pile of rotten garbage.
I recall fr whnan year of college (2002) reading walter e Williams articles and other economists, listening to rush about federal spending, etc, thinking, why did we get off the golf standard? why fiat money that they can just print? I went thru my 20s and 30s with that low level anxiety, knowing they're just printing money. bought a little in 2016-2017. lil more in the next few years. then I read the Blocksize War before this year, and anxiety receded
