Well Spain is a special case during the high middle ages/early modern period (1500-1650). They pretty much tanked their own economy by bringing in such massive loads of silver/gold from the Americas. Plus they then suffered from a problem that many countries would later suffer from. This problem being the upkeep and defense of far away territory. In particular the Spanish Netherlands would literally tank both them and their Austrian family during the 30 years war. Perhaps even to the point that the German states would have been steam rollered early on.
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