> If you look at the history of empires, from the Romans to the Han, it is littered with instances of societal decline as a direct result of inflation and overs

> If you look at the history of empires, from the Romans to the Han, it is littered with instances of societal decline as a direct result of inflation and overspending. There is little evidence to support this. There is an abundance of evidence of empires responding to the crisis of a population overburdened by debt by cancellation, though, if we're going by history to dictate what our current state should do....