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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 712812, member: 3011&quot;]You need not say more.&nbsp; As I predicted, the response would be &quot;the way things are is the only way they could possibly be.&quot;&nbsp; It&#039;s easy to dismiss an argument without actually having to refute it.&nbsp; I see no reason why it is some sort of economic law that currencies MUST always depreciate.&nbsp; If the plan had been in place, the Hunt situation would probably never have occurred.&nbsp; But let&#039;s say it did and silver coins carried a value equal to $55.&nbsp; So what?&nbsp; How much intrinsic value is in a paper $100 bill?&nbsp; How much metal in a dollar coin?&nbsp; We constantly use currency in this manner, yet can&#039;t open our minds to new possibilities.&nbsp; Somehow, the whole concept of sound money abhors people.&nbsp; This is why I said it will never happen.&nbsp; It is ingrained too deeply in our minds that prices always go up and the value of currency always goes down, and that&#039;s perfectly okay and shouldn&#039;t try to be corrected.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: Here&#039;s another way of looking at it.&nbsp; Most foreign currencies do not have a fixed dollar value.&nbsp; They only have a floating rate value.&nbsp; The concept of reintroducing silver as money in this way isn&#039;t conceptually different than accepting the idea that two currencies can circulate at the same time in the same place.&nbsp; Many nations with weak domestic currencies have historically used the US dollar in this manner [until recently].&nbsp; It&#039;s a new twist on an old theme.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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