EUA faz como Roma Antiga: gasta demais, deprecia moeda, declina, entra em colapso. E vai rápido.
E em apenas 40 anos, é muitíssimo mais rápido.
Roma não divulgava dados da inflação.
The denarius was originally introduced by Augustus at around 95% silver purity, but it was Nero who in 68AD began to debase it from 92% purity[4]. The Denarius debasement between Nero and Antoninus Pius bears the greatest similarity to the US dollar index. However this period of debasement, the US dollar debasement we see now – from Nixon to Obama’s second term, is over a mere 40 years.
The denarius debasement didn’t end there; successive Roman Emperors dragged out the currency debasement until the fourth century. If we look at the denarius debasement up until it was rarely used then we can see how long the Roman Emperors managed to prolong the painful debasement. The Antoninianus was introduced by Caracalla in 215. It contained 80% of the silver of two denarii. The coin was demonetized by Elagabalus in 219 AD, but later Pupienus and Balbinus (238 AD) named the Antoninianus as the principal silver denomination. In contrast to the denarii, the destruction of the antoninianus was a far more brutal process – falling from a silver purity 49.5% under Pupienus & Balbinus in 238 to mere 5% silver content by the time of Aurelian (274 AD). Comparing the antoninianus to the US dollar index, as we did with the denarius earlier, we see the debasement of the US dollar is a far more extreme example of government abuse of monetary policy than the Emperors of Rome.
The denarius was originally introduced by Augustus at around 95% silver purity, but it was Nero who in 68AD began to debase it from 92% purity[4]. The Denarius debasement between Nero and Antoninus Pius bears the greatest similarity to the US dollar index. However this period of debasement, the US dollar debasement we see now – from Nixon to Obama’s second term, is over a mere 40 years.
