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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 25469390, member: 101855&quot;]During the latter half of the 19th and early 20th centuries, the silver mine owners made a fortune. The government bought up their excess product and supported the prices. </p><p><br /></p><p>The knitwits thought they would benefit from inflation created by increases in the money supply. If they did, the benefit was transitory. They might have paid off their loans with cheaper dollars, but they still had eat and have a roof over their heads. They also had to run their farms and other businesses at higher expenses which may not have been covered by higher crop prices.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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