QUESTION:

What would happen to the economy if I bought a billion dollars worth of gold, dissolved it in aqua regia, and dumped it into the sea?

Nothing. The currency isn't gold-backed.

Local fish get heavy metal poisoning

What if I took a billion dollars of money, dissolved it in whatever dissolves money, fluoroantimonic acid maybe, and dumped it into the sea?

/thread

Hardly anything.
A billion $ is nothing the scheme of things.
A billion in gold is less than 20 tons. Individual countries have gold reserves in the thousands of tons.

Ok. How much money would I have to destroy to make a dent, and what would happen, and what would the consequences be.

30T

consequences, you would go to jail

Nothing would happen to the macro economy. Only thing would be you proving all insults ever thrown at you. Sage Sagistan

As you proceed to destroy significant amounts of gold the price of gold will rise rapidly (supply / demand). It will quickly exceed the ability of any entity to pay for. Increased gold prices will cause changes in the economy like more gold mining and activity in related fields. In short your stupidity would make a lot of other people happy.

what happens if i somehow gathered 1000 trillion dollars and set them in fire?

You would poison more fish. Why do you hate fish so much?

nothing happens since currency is digital and the paper doesn't mean anything

you'd lose a billion dollars

would it have any real concequense if someone drops moab in wall street? or do they have back up data of all the important things

Basic economics 101 user
You reduce the amount of something
its price increases.
Supply and demand.
The demand increases and the supply is down = HIGH prices.
The demand decreases and supply is high? LOW prices

what happens if i somehow gathered 6,000,000 Jews and gassed them all?

You get a nice plaque.

You would make me a hell of a lot of money.

I would buy you a pint.

>buy 2 billion dollars worth of gold
>dump half of it in the ocean
>sell remaining gold for 3 billion dollars
3 years on

You would make some miners happy.

Thats about it.

you would be doing something that has never been done before

what's cooking?

Burger/Straya joining forcesbantz for F2PBP.

You would have done nothing wrong

If you want to destroy the economy, destroy the oil refineries. It'll bring it down in 3 months. The dollar is backed by oil, not gold.

demand for jews would go way up so it's a win-win