Well yeah, there has always been an economic cycle, and there has always been civil unrest in response to economic turmoil.

I guess my point is that looking for a "solution" to that is sort of a fools game. Even if there was no fed and we were back to the specie standard, that would still be the case. Its just the nature of a captialist economy. To quote the noted economic scholar Biggie Smalls "mo money, mo problems"