A dollar bill is a dollar bill because everyone agrees it’s a dollar bill. Money used to be backed by a “gold standard”. Which meant the government had $100 worth of gold in a vault from which they made a $100 bill that went out into the market.

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Let’s say you have one million in your bank account but at this time the value of your currency is very low , now your country discovered significant amounts of oil deposits and the value of your dollar went up significantly . Now would the one million