For example, when inflation reaches an all - time high,
fiat money becomes useless.
Not exact matches
With crashing Chinese and US stock markets, and with crashing Asian RE markets one the way soon (especially in SE Asia), the necessity to own REAL
money over
FIAT currencies
becomes even stronger.
While I agree that (unlimited) compound interest that it is a big problem for the economy and need to be reformed,
fiat money on the other side it is one of the major tools that prevented today's recession to
become a another Great Depression.
The US dollar went off the gold - exchange standard and the US dollar
became a purely
fiat currency backed by nothing but government decree which allows the Federal Reserve to print
money ad nauseum.
Accordingly, only when we recognise that monetary central planning is the ultimate source of our financial and economic distemper, and when it either collapses or is consigned to the dustbin of history, and when 100 % - reserve banking and sound
money replace fractional reserve and central banking and
fiat currency, will the ruinous cycle of boom and bust
become as thing of the past.
As there are hundreds of altcoins available waiting for you to swap your
fiat money for the cryptocurrency, Motta recommends that you «
become a sponge and learn as much as possible about the space.»
However, Litecoin recently
became convertible from
fiat money.
With the central bank's
fiat currency constantly depreciating, and the monetary system
becoming increasingly unstable, Newman argues that it's time for states to take the lead in restoring honest
money.
As investors lose confidence in central banks and traditional forms of
fiat money, crypto assets are
becoming more viable.