At some point, all money rests on a stack of fiction.
The US government might be disconserted if people were to redeem those 10$ for 5 gallon cupons today... which might have been your point.
Investing in metals... (especially copper, aluminum or aluminium, etc) would get really shakey if one had tried to do it several years ago to the present.
There is a -reason- silver maintains a constant value, and that reason is not "fate." Economists make it so.
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Date: 2006-10-05 05:27 pm (UTC)The US government might be disconserted if people were to redeem those 10$ for 5 gallon cupons today... which might have been your point.
Investing in metals... (especially copper, aluminum or aluminium, etc) would get really shakey if one had tried to do it several years ago to the present.
There is a -reason- silver maintains a constant value, and that reason is not "fate." Economists make it so.