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    7 months ago

    Possibly the final nail in the coffin of the gold/silver standards (Aug '71)? I’m not at all saying that we should have stayed on a commodity standard for currency, but switching that completely off without also having sufficient protections for financial shenanigans seems like it would create exactly the kind of increase in inequalities shown.

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