This year is a good year
The harvest is large, we can
hire more people
have our houses renovated
and buy by auction
an extra piece of land
the sellers make a profit
they laugh at all the money
from us farmers and from
the soldiers who came
back from the war with
honestly stolen wealth
They make everything more expensive
so that I am short of money and
have to sell my farm
This year is a bad year
Poem 2330 Amsterdam, 2019-07-02 Inflation by spoils of war, for example during the reigns of Alexander the Great (336-323) and Philip II (1556-1598), and during the Eighty Years' War (1568-1648) Silver Fleet (Spanish treasure fleet), seized under the leadership of Piet Hein (1628-1629) Collection:BloodTrunk Keyword:Economy