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months later,the Battleof Britain was over,bringing an endto German hopes of direct militaryconquest of the British Isles.  \nBut the end of the air raids would notend the attack on the United Kingdom.Shortly after their defeat in the Battle ofBritain,the Germans began to produce anew weapon that,while less obviouslyviolent than Luftwaffe bombs,was rec-ognized as no less virulent.That weaponwas counterfeit British pounds  \nOperation Bernhard,as the counterfeit-ing enterprise would be known,wasnamed for Bernhard Kruger,the SSofficer who oversaw the production ofthe bogus notes by slave labor in theSachsenhausen concentration camp nearBerlin.By contemporary accounts,theplan resulted in the manufacture ofabout f150,000,000 in counterfeit notesof various denominations—in the neigh-borhood ofS7 billion by today's stan-dards.Kruger's operation enlisted thesupport of known counterfeiters as wellas professionals and skilled tradesmenamong the camp's population.It incor-porated production techniques that ranthe gamut from detailed material analy-ses to the manual labor of prisoners who\"seasoned\"the bogus bills by passingthem from one another,folding andsoiling them to give them a realisticworn appearance.  \nThe objective was simple,devious,andpernicious:To undermine public confi-dence in the pound and,by so doing,irreparably damage the British economy.In the end,the plot did not succeed indestroying confidence in Britain's cur-  \n# Why Is Stable Money Such a Big Deal?\n\nrency,and eventually,the counterfeitingprogram shifted toward financing vari-ous clandestine Nazi activities outsidethe United Kingdom.Ironically,thisshift in the operation's focus was madepossible precisely because the initialgoal of undermining the pound's valuewas not realized.  \nOperation Bernhard is a particularlyinteresting example of the use of coun-terfeiting as warfare,but it is by nomeans unique or unprecedented.One ofthe earliest known instances of counter-feiting as a weapon occurred during thecity-state conflicts of Renaissance Italy(the historical period that would inspireMachiavelli's The Prince).The instiga-tor in this case was one Galeazzo Sforza,a Milanese duke,who in 1470(whenMachiavelli was an infant)attempted toundermine the economic well-being ofhis enemies in the rival city-state ofVenice by adding counterfeiting Venet-ian currency to the corpus of generaltreachery that he regularly practiced.(History records the duke as a particu-larly odious character,whose cruelty ledto a successful assassination plot byMilanese elites in 1476.)  \nThere are many,many more examples—some of them listed in table 1-extend-ing through to modern terrorist aggres-sions.The ubiquitous impulse toundermine the value of,and confidencein,the currency of one's enemies istestament to the indispensable role ofastable and reliable monetary standard inmoderm economies.In fact,so broadand deep is the potential damage of asuccessful counterfeiting campaign,some reports indicate that professionalGerman military officers initiallyopposed Operation Bernhard partly onthe grounds that it constituted an unac-ceptable attack on civilian populations.  \nMay 1.2002  \nWhat do attempts to counterfeit anenemy'scurrency during wartimehave in common with decisions toadopt another country's currencyduring peacetime?Both are inspiredby the power of a stable monetarystandard and,conversely,the conse-quences of losing it.Both illustratewhy preserving the value of thenation's currency is a central bank'smost important responsibility.ThisCommentary is based on a speechgiven (jointly with Mike Bryan)to theCleveland City Club New Leadersgroup on February 19,2002.  \nBuying Credibility  \nCounterfeiting as weaponry is a power-ful illustration of the value of stablemoney,but it may not be the most uplift-ing example.More hopeful lessons mayb","cbCaimIXh8bHot9t","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimIXh8bHot9t","pdf",2515280,11,"English","# Why Is Stable Money Such a Big Deal?\n## Buying 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