Kasz216 on 07 August 2011
| yo_john117 said: The US currency would be ok if some of the leaders hadn't been dumbasses and gone away from the gold/silver standard. I believe no country has ever survived more then 100 years without a gold/silver standard. |
I don't think any country has tried too. Fiat based money systems weren't really in use until the late 1900's as far as i know.
Outside of like... the Yuan Dynasty I think... which I believe lasted a bit over 100 years... but I don't know when they instituted fiat based money.
