<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">It is possible to change the legal status of something without affecting the community. For example the gold standard was removed making the dollar a Fiat currency without an economic meltdown.<br>
</blockquote><br></div>Might be a bad example ;-) Some argue the disappearance of the gold standard (and subsequently bretton-woods) lead to the current global finance crisis...<br>