Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

@HeerJeet Silver was definitely better, just strange conceptually (but there were mining interests involved?) given that we already had practical experience with greenbacks. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 1, 2020 Hibernated

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@HeerJeet What’s interesting is we *had* fiat currency during the Civil War era and for a while after the war and it wasn’t causing any problems, but an elite consensus emerged to go backwards to gold and even the populists had all these ideas about silver instead of fiat. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Klonick Facebook ... it’s bad — PolitiTweet.org

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