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Comment author: William_Quixote 24 June 2013 11:48:34PM *  6 points [-]

Your research was not comprehensive. Check transaction costs. Economics of trade. Fixed v floating rate regimes. Optimal currency areas. Monetary policy and problems of insufficient demand. Relative financial stability of gov borrowing in own vs other currencies and cliff effects.

Comment author: [deleted] 25 June 2013 08:14:55AM -2 points [-]

Um, what does any of that have to do with anything? Where's the market failure that justifies central banking the way economists can offer for any other intervention they support?