However, I nixed that in favor of my second favorite passage: Ely's conclusion (also edited) where he promises that» [U.S. Dollars and Venezuelan Bolivars] and the
like will quickly fade into financial history, just as
tulipmania [and the German mark, the Argentinian peso and the Zimbabwean dollar] did, serving solely to remind future generations of the folly of gambling on illusions of value [
like fiat currency].»