In 1912, London financed sixty percent of world trade through bills of exchange: private commercial paper backed by goods in transit, settling in gold. No central bank required.

Two years later, governments killed this system in a week. What we got instead is the inflation, instability, and central bank manipulation we now consider normal.

The market had already solved the money problem. Governments unsolved it.

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