I was trying to be generous to the anti-Fed types--personally, however broken and corrupt the Federal Reserve systems are (again, being generous to the Zeitgeis

I was trying to be generous to the anti-Fed types--personally, however broken and corrupt the Federal Reserve systems are (again, being generous to the Zeitgeist), things are pretty good. Occasionally you get cheap money bubbles that are a direct result of Reserve Bank decisions, but on balance, IMO, it's an overwhelmingly positive system.