[Burkeman1]

Ever here of the British Empire?

[Austin Willard Wright]

I think is limiting his analysis to absolute monarchy, otherwise, of course, one could ask: what about the Kingdom of Sweden?

[steve50]

Ever here of the British Empire

When the British tried it they were still on gold. We are paying for it with fiat and expecting currency manipulation to lessen the damage. When the rest of the worlds gets tired of fiat dollar games we got a problem