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I'm only aware of one instance of massive inflation while people were using commodity currency, that being the Spanish. Maybe there were lesser instances when dealing with colonial style mercantilism, but not enough to crash the economy. The other huge difference between then and now is that...

Do you think that if we introduced a larger denomination (something bigger than a dollar or euro) to try to deal with the problem of inflation that it would actually lead to more inflation? I mean, if you said that now there was a Super Dollar that was worth 100 USD, then that would make...

I wanted to ask an economics related "what if" question and there was no where to put it. Consider this your econ dumping ground.