Finance and central banking don't operate according to the laws of thermodynamics. It's hard to argue that finance is a closed system in the physics sense becau

Finance and central banking don't operate according to the laws of thermodynamics. It's hard to argue that finance is a closed system in the physics sense because wealth can absolutely be created and destroyed. You're kind of getting at Hyman Minsky's work - the notion that stability in financial markets is inherently unstable. But otherwise you're not really quoting any evidence for some pretty wild predictions.