Re: the future long term financial apocalypse of the USA

D wrote:

 The only regulation that is necessary for two people to transact is what they agree upon.

This being  a science fiction newsgroup, let's consider your decisions when you are sent back to London in 1870.
You are hungry, and want some bread.
Which of the following do you expect to find in your bread?
(1) Grain
(2) Yeast
(3) Chalk
(4) Alum
(5) Plaster of Paris.
Do you "agree" with the bakery that you want Alum in your bread? Do you even know it is there?   In what sense is your consumption of Plaster of Paris an agreed upon transaction if you have no way of knowing it is there?
Full of nourishing wheat with extra chalk, you  rent a room in a new building with cheerful bright wallpaper.
How much Arsenic is in the room?
(1) Trace amounts
(2) One pound
(3) Two pounds
(4) Three pounds
(5) Four pounds
(6) Five pounds.
At what point did you agree to  rent a room infused with 3.7 pounds of Arsenic? For that matter, did your landlord agree to poison his tenants when he bought the wallpaper, or did the manufacturer keep silent on just how much Arsenic was needed for those vivid colours?
William Hyde