Until 1971, the value of the dollar was pegged to a fixed amount of precious metal just as it was at the beginning of fractional reserve banking. When the famous Voodooist Marie Laveau and her daughter were alive in the nineteenth century, a dollar was either made with a guaranteed amount of silver, or was convertible into a specified amount. This fixed the value of a dollar into something real. So if either Laveau senior or junior had used the customary folk magical practice of putting a dollar under a candle, she would have been growing wealth from a fixed amount. If you have tried this same
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