[Southack]

"Oh, I always thought "millenium" meant 1000 years. But all of the world's major powers were on honest-to-goodness gold standards 100 years ago."

A "gold standard" for a currency is NOT bartering.

How far back in time do you have to go before BARTERING was the preferred medium of exchange instead of currency/coins?!

Surely more than 100 years...

[zechariah]

A "gold standard" for a currency is NOT bartering.

Whew! For a second there I thought you were arguing against a gold standard.

[z]