I created a 6 minute youtube video to explain why I don't like bitcoin, but let me sum it up. I see the us dollar as a debt backed currency. Banks create money through loans, which are in turn backed by houses, cars, and people's incomes. Everybody seems to think the us dollar is a faith based, or something, but I don't see it that way. I see it as a fully backed currency, not too much different from being a gold backed currency. Where am I wrong?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jujwQkhnoU8I think that it's precisely because of that reason (fiat being backed by debt), that puts the hole system at risk. The financial crisis back in 2007-2008, was caused by the US housing bubble burst. Banks were giving risky loans, everyone was buying a house, the prices of the houses kept going up, people start investing in the house market at huge prices, and when it burst, the houses were worth less than the loans that were previously offered, and everyone lost money. Since banks can print money at will, they can then make risky loans. If their money were backed by something real, and not the debt itself, then they would not have loaned so much money, and maybe the house bubble wouldn't have been created, because people weren't buying so much houses in the first place.