Re: Pure Comedy Gold.

Gold, indeed.

Technology does not play a large part. But Central Banking and Fractional Reserve Banking, yes.

Basically, Governments are the cause of the economic breakdowns and they know it. But they will never admit it. Just compare what Greenspan said BEFORE he managed to land his job at the Fed.

Just today, there was a nice writeup here:

http://mises.org/daily/5938/Seventeen-Years-of-Boom-and-Bust