It’s exactly the opposite. The more complex the economy the more important it is to allow market forces to integrate the dispersed knowledge from around the world. 

No one is smart enough to do that job, even if they had the best intentions (which they never will). 

I think 100s of years ago you would be 110% correct but now with how connected the world is and what the economy is now there needs to be someone in charge to monitor and try to stabilize/warn people about the economic situation

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No, it’s not a job that anyone has to do. Money has existed for most of human history as an emergent decentralized phenomenon and that money worked better than our bureaucratically managed money. 

FWIW, I agree that Congress would do a worse job. 