Paul Johnson wrote:
Laissez-faire economics is an impossible pipe dream and Germany proved it. Taken to it's natural end, you get Germany's pre-WWII out-of-control rapidinflation where soon it takes millions of dollars just to make a basic grocery run.
So... in how many countries does the government not have a monopoly on printing money? Where would people have got the wheelbarrows full of millions of Marks if the government hadn't put them into circulation? Starting out in its own pocket, of course, not distributed to the people.