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I thought the event I'm hazily thinking of happened earlier than that. 1948 would be almost too late because bad habits would have been formed.

But the kind of reform that happened couldn't have made money for the kinds of speculations that were expected. The cool thing about the actions taken is that nobody could sew up any market sector. It was a pure capitalistic free-for-all in all sectors but the few that involved security (I buttume armaments and other war implements were part of this ban).

frustrated emoticon here Nothing was miraculous; somebody had to do some work, trade, transport, manufacturing, etc. This is what I talk about when I say I don't know what work got done to do a cold start bootstrap. I am buttuming that all manufacturing plants were leveled and not working and falling apart because of the war.

Things don't go poof and get magically made. There also had to be some method of bootstrapping local small business. People are wonderfully good at doing this locally if they're left alone. But they do need some way of buying basic food groups to fuel their bodies while they're making the local new infrastructure.

I don't understand how currencies work at all. When you guys talk about this stuff, all I can hear is Martian :-).

BAH