Hi julian! I don't want to be a troll, so please don't take my comments that way; I just like having a discussion. Okay? I think it's great that you're pondering this stuff and trying to make sense of what in the heck is going on in the world. I do think, though, that the reason you aren't seeing a solution to the economic problem is that you're looking at it all wrong. Each of the possible options you've written about sounds like pop-economics; the kind of stuff we might get fed by some smug twit on the t.v. I did notice, however, that under possibility #2 you mentioned a shift in consciousness, and I think that's where you were at your warmest. The real solution isn't going to be something that money can fix, because money got us into this mess in the first place. So let's look at the problem differently, instead of staring at charts that show how hopeless it is to continue playing a game that someone else made up for us (and they can change the rules whenever they want, to suit themselves); instead let's go back to a time in our lives before we knew about all this economic crisis crap and take another look at the world through the eyes of children. I think if we do that, we can see how simple the answers really are, if we allow them to be. I'll get back to that in a moment, but first, let's take another look at these possible solutions with our adult eyes...

1. Tyler Jenks? Never heard of him. What does he lead and who decided he gets to lead it? Does he understand what Bitcoin actually is and what gives it value? Do you? I've read the papers and I still don't understand it. I don't understand why all cryptos spiked so high in 2017 and then fell just as fast. What I do understand is what qualifications a medium of exchange has to meet in order to be considered money, and cryptos don't make the cut since they have no intrinsic value (being something abstract and imaginary). It seems to me that artificially making numbers grow in a computer is absolutely no different than QE because no value was created. You should check out an old book by Adam Smith called "The Wealth of Nations", in which he illucidates that wealth is only created by human work.

2. Several foreign leaders have tried to bring their countries back to the gold standard in recent times, and whenever they do, the newsmen in the US of A tell us American people that those are committing crimes against humanity. Then the commander-in-chief and all his generals will whip their soldiers into a patriotic frenzy, and turn them out to go kill those "bad guys". Remember Libya? You thought that was about spanking a man who was supposedly mean to people?

3. Do you know who all these debts are owed to? Sometimes the debt holders do forgive debt and we hear about it. This is what is happening when we hear about a central bank bailing out a country. This is because all of these debts are ultimately owed to the world banking system. The primary stock holders of these banks (think names like the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Carnegies, et al.) are the people who are really running the show, and if they decide to forgive a country of its debt to them, then guess who is in charge of the country?

4. Well, at least he's trying... I think. The Trump card still feels like a wild card to me. I can't tell what side this guy is really on. Personally, I'd feel a lot more sure of him if he'd put a stop to this geo-engineering, weather modification, cloud-seeding crap: the aluminum alone... never mind the rabbit trail. In any case, he's still doing what most everyone else is doing: playing their game by their rules. That will always be a losing situation in the long run.

5. Cute name. Basket case. Unfortunately, that's what these economists are starting to sound like.

Here's the bottom line, my friend, through the eyes of a child: If the bad men won't play nice, let's take our ball and go home. In other words, stop playing their money game. It is a simple solution to a problem that has been made to look more complicated than it actually is. If we can get the ball rolling on a shift in consciousness about society and pull the plug on their matrix level paradigm, then we can get back to just living; living in real freedom and using our wonderful creativity to build prosperity. I realize that may sound like naive philosophy. And what good, you ask, are nice words in the face of real world issues? My reply is two-fold: first, is money real? and second, do we really need it to live on this planet?

If you'd like to know, there actually is an adult plan to get us out of this mess (and yes, it is a plan that comes from looking at the problem through a child's innocent eyes), and there are already many thousands of people around the world that support it. It is called Ubuntu. You can learn about it at ubuntuplanet.org, and I hope you will. If we can reach enough people, it just might work.