Ago, countries were relating the value of their
currencies to the gold. So, they were buying the gold against a trust receipt
which is a paper invented by English people who called it a banknote proving
that the country owns an asset of gold in the bank. Each banknote shows the
value of the gold stock known in the bank. This resulted in the rarity of gold
stock in markets, as it was no longer sufficient to fulfill people’s needs.
When
the production of gold was stopped due to wars, merchants resorted to exploit
the need of people, and they created huge wealth due to the high rise in
prices. In 1937, countries agreed not to relate the banknotes to any kind of
metals, and then they enacted laws to codify the banknotes to be approved among
countries by force of law not by the value of gold. Then, each country withdrew
its reserve of gold to be the only responsible for printing its currency. Each
country searched for a method to design and manufacture banknote, as to be
difficult to be imitated or forged by putting watermarks, and hologram strips.
The value of each currency depended on the production of countries, and the
volume and amount of their exports until progress, development, and the
increase of production became a parameter to differentiate between strong, weak
countries, poor, and rich ones. Due to the shortage of production, development
was delayed, and the value of poor countries currencies were weakened. Those
poor countries became a market depending wholly on the products of rich
countries, as they squandered in printing the banknotes without real increase
in production resulted in the increase of inflation, and a catastrophic rise in
goods prices.
For
illustrating this in an example: If the market had five cars of ten thousand
Dollars for each, and there are five people; each of them possesses ten
thousand Dollars, then each one would be able to obtain a car. However, if each
one possesses thirty thousand Dollars, then the demand on cars will increase,
and the price of the car will significantly rise.
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