life without paper money

[PatboyX]

the end times are here!

 

[KingNothing]

Originally posted by: Marauder911

Originally posted by: Jzero
Gold Standard
Abandoned in 1971, most schools barely get to Vietnam...

Thanks for the link. Have a :beer:. I think you also summed up what happened in my school too.

Wow. That's unfortunate that this isn't regularly taught in high school. It's pretty damn important.

If you're up for an interesting read, grab a copy of The Creature From Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin. Not stuff you want to read before bed, it's pretty scary.

 

[rh71]

As long as they don't make us carry the damned heavy coins instead of the $1 bills. :|

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: KingNothing
Wow. That's unfortunate that this isn't regularly taught in high school. It's pretty damn important.

The average public high school history student usually takes 2 years/semesters of US history, and in those 2 semesters, they've got to get from colonial times all the way up through the 20th century. It's a lot to cover...it's not that it's an unimportant fact, it's just so recent and there is so much other stuff to cover in such a relatively short time.

 

[OrganizedChaos]

Originally posted by: Jzero

Originally posted by: KingNothing
Wow. That's unfortunate that this isn't regularly taught in high school. It's pretty damn important.

The average public high school history student usually takes 2 years/semesters of US history, and in those 2 semesters, they've got to get from colonial times all the way up through the 20th century. It's a lot to cover...it's not that it's an unimportant fact, it's just so recent and there is so much other stuff to cover in such a relatively short time.

my school stops at the end of WW II