Talk:Economy of the Confederate States of America

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There could be a lot more said about the Erlanger loan; apparently the French company managed to arrange for itself to take most of the profits, while pushing most of the risk off onto others. It yielded the Confederate government some hard cash with which to buy arms and supplies in Europe, but the actual concrete benefit was proportionately rather low.

Also, there was no real system of taxation -- the central Confederate government largely relied on the individual states, which largely printed ever-increasing amounts of paper money. In the end, somewhat arbitrary and capricious military confiscations of food and supplies at below-market prices served some of the purposes of taxation. AnonMoos 10:03, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

The confiscations were paid with promisory notes good AFTER the war (if CSA wins the war). Very patriotic people took them (and became poor). Rjensen 10:51, 19 December 2006 (UTC)