5 January 2006 - money of nothing

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2006 : 5 January 2006
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Banks create money out of nothing by making loans, and while it exists, money remains nothing but a convention. But money stands for everything--it is the vacuum energy of society. With finance so much more advanced than physics, it's interesting that we're still in the inflationary era.


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