It provided free and safe travel across the Silk Road, it isolated Russia, and helped spread the bubonic plague
The five freedoms it protects: speech, religion, press, assembly, and the right to petition the government. Together, these five guaranteed freedoms make the people of the United States of America the freest in the world. ... If you're in the U.S., you have freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly and petition.
They believe it would be solved by Currency reform.