The amount of money circulating is thus a constant.
False. Constants don't change -- that is why they are called constants. Bank A loans out 0.9*deposit_X, which then gets deposited into Bank B. Bank B then loans out 0.9*0.9*deposit_X. Rinse and repeat say 100 times. Money_created_from_thin_air = 0.9 + (0.9^2) +
The ideal currency is one whose purchasing power remains constant over time. That could easily be done using a feedback control loop, such as a PID controller. Whenever there is inflation, the government could tax. Whenever there is deflation, the government could print debt free money. Either way, the government gets money, but under this system it can get some of the money without needing to tax it away from citizens. There is no need for a middle man (Federal Reserve Bank) to take its cut and give it to its private shareholders.
since the amount of money in the economy is set by an agency whose authority derives from Congress
You mean "derived", not "derives". The Fed was created by a very few members of Congress who were paid off by private bankers back in 1913. Desribe it however you want, but control of the Fed by the public is way too indirect. Period.
Yeah, it pretty much *is* a coincidence. Those actually familiar with history know that the Government has been borrowing (and repaying) money since the days of the Revolutionary War.
If you are implying that the Government has always been borrowing money since the days of the Revolutionary War, you are wrong. Lincoln's greenbacks issued during the Civil War were debt free currency. Coins created at the US mint even today are also debt free currency.
I'll get on that as soon as I finish the The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
I've never heard of that book. Did you read it?
"I've seen it. It's rubbish." -- Marvin the Paranoid Android