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Originally Posted by AccyChris
a long time ago folk put gold in the bank and started using Pnotes because they tought they were "as good as gold" but there was a raise in inflation untill Pnotes were worth less than the paper there wrote on so they had to work harder to earn less.... and the best bit of the story is the bank started printing more Pnotes than it had gold and loaned it out (with a tidy profit of course) ..... moral of the story being if everyone did want to exchange there Pnotes the bank could'nt exchange them for anything more than Pnuts  |
That was the gold standard when notes were matched to gold value in the bank - now non-existent and the banks just create money numbers on computers!
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