The high cost of WW II made it a necessity for the gvm't to have more money at a particular moment, and not wait for year-end. Not so. Govt has been able to print fiat money at will since the Fed Reserve was founded in 1913.
The phrase "not worth a Continental" dates to several wars before that, and several governments of East-coast North America as well. tenuous-at-best connection to cypherpunks material - using a currency backed only by the supply of ones and zeroes requires a market mechanism to encourage the issuers not to overdo it.... #-- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts@ix.netcom.com, Pager/Voicemail 1-408-787-1281 # # "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" used to mean us watching # the government, not the other way around....