IMO the present day fractional reserve system cannot survive much longer. They will need to go back to gold or BTC or whatever.
They are literally printing money to manipulate markets as they please.
Here's a headline you thought you'd never see on Bloomberg:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-12-13/markets-in-turmoil-the-bull-case-is-compelling"Economic slowdown might be good for stocks"
Let that sink in for a moment. Economic slowdown => Good for stocks???
The only reason an economic slowdown is "good" for stocks is
because the FED will print more money to fight the slowdown.
And when they print money YOU don't see a penny of it.
They print money for banks to manipulate the stock markets. It's absurd.
This is not a free market.
Whether it's gold or Bitcoin, they will need to go back to some sort of reserves that limit the amount of financial fraud. What we have today is a massive fraud of unseen proportions.