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Re: [NOISE] Re: "Gentlemen do not read each other's bank statements"
>> > The high cost of WW II made it a necessity for the gvm't to have more
>> > money at a particular moment, and not wait for year-end.
>> Not so. Govt has been able to print fiat money at will since the Fed
>> Reserve was founded in 1913.
The phrase "not worth a Continental" dates to several wars before that,
and several governments of East-coast North America as well.
tenuous-at-best connection to cypherpunks material - using a currency
backed only by the supply of ones and zeroes requires a market mechanism
to encourage the issuers not to overdo it....
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# "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" used to mean us watching
# the government, not the other way around....