Holy cow. Yeah, it is. It's incredible. And we. We should take lessons from history. And what happened in Rome, we're seeing done in the United States in multiple ways. One of the ways that Rome fell over a period of time was that they debased their currency. Their currency used to be 100% silver or 100% gold, and they started to, over time, realize that if they decrease the percentage of silver in a coin or the percentage of gold in a coin, they would be able to print more. (15:27–15:36)
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Asserts that currency debasement contributed to the fall of Rome.
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