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The Cracks in the Dam, Eh?
We created the dam around us, dollar liquidity, but there was so much demand for it outside. The thing just went crazy and all eknow the banking system started dreaming all sorts of different ways to do these reserveless, virtual monetary transactions that authorities just couldn't keep up with. It was a pesent period of massive bank as well as money evolution. By the early 19 seventies, the fed, te b i s, the bank of england, everybody just kind of threw up their hands and said, we can't even define money any more. We m one, forget it. Am two, forgetIt. Those things just don't apply, because banks are doing