Spain:
1500s superpower thanks to silver influx.
Printed wealth without production. Prices quadrupled. Middle class destroyed. Four defaults in 50 years.
Gold & silver doubled. Empire bankrupt.
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France:
late 1700s paper money backed by land.
Printed billions, currency collapsed 40-to-1.
Gold doubled twice. Bread riots, guillotine, regime collapse.