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<p>[QUOTE="silversurfer22, post: 1288862, member: 32993"]It's not always black and white. The laws/acts requiring the government to purchase silver was a way to bail out the mining industry back in the 1890's! There was also lots of public debt and buying tons of silver and giving them a face value of a mere $1 was a form of government sanctioned inflation. </p><p><br /></p><p>Not that different from today if you think about it...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="silversurfer22, post: 1288862, member: 32993"]It's not always black and white. The laws/acts requiring the government to purchase silver was a way to bail out the mining industry back in the 1890's! There was also lots of public debt and buying tons of silver and giving them a face value of a mere $1 was a form of government sanctioned inflation. Not that different from today if you think about it...[/QUOTE]
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