I could not have envisioned a better way to reduce the land of the free and home of the brave to its current wretchedly pitiable state than fiat money.
Arguably the best period of organic growth in the US was 1870-1913. Amazing incentive system. It is a period which includes the inception of all the technical infrastructure which provided, by inertia, economic growth during the exchange standard, bretton woods, and debt-based eras which followed.