[bert]

[grania]

It's amazing that there weren't riots when those silver certificates that people still have were no longer honored. Our monetary system is based on theft of that silver held "in trust".

It's amazing. I wonder how many people even study the history of money and the monetary system anymore. FWIW, I have a relative with an undergraduate Business degree who doesn't know how to do a simple stock market trade and doesn't know what the Federal Reserve Bank does.