Luckily it's not like that was ever tried before, or we would have some idea of what will happen. Oh ... wait ... https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/1932

Luckily it's not like that was ever tried before, or we would have some idea of what will happen. Oh ... wait ... https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/1932-01-01/crisis-gold-standard https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/1932-01-01/crisis-go... The problem, at its root, is that we have large parts of the world with negative trade balances. What that boils down to is that there are large parts of the world that don't have any economic use but get included anyway. Those parts represent interruptions to an economy that only works long-term if it's a circle. Now just so we're clear: the problem is overcapacity, and a demand-limited economy. The solution is obviously not to cut parts out and lower demand further (why not ? Because anyone doing that will get outcompeted in a credit-based economy and therefore doing this is not a Nash equilibrium).