#Currency

Roman

LiveFromOdessa

When Money Dies, by Adam Fergusson. An essential read, and I found the following (long) paragraph to be one of the best and most telling of the book @ttmygh @LynAldenContact

destroy all leaf blowers

LarkBrains

i said i was gonna log off twitter because it was just fucking with my mood atm and, as usual, continued to scroll for a little bit instead.and ended up

Snake Oil Salesman

ghuubear

for btc to be a fully-fledged currency, crypto can't be a volatileinvestment asset, it has to dominate the system to achieve its decentralized utopiabullish on the tech and what it

Nick Craver

Nick_Craver

I. Hate. Cryptocurrencies.There are no redeeming qualities. None. There’s a hardware shortage everywhere, they gobble energy supply in a completely unsustainable model, and almost everyone involved is only doing this

Kaushik Basu

kaushikcbasu

The virus will be around for some time. Social distancing/lockdowns are a must but we also have to slowly allow trade, exchange & markets to function. Otherwise there can be

Rob Davis

Dr_Rob_Davis

In our latest paper on the Micronesian Scrubfowl we explore how breeding and feeding habitat choices may render it vulnerable to sea level rise. With this paper we honour Milang

Michel Rauchs

mrauchs

Good thread, but the conclusion is missing the point.Commodity monies have been a thing in the past. The commodity usually occupies the base layer of the hierarchical money pyramid. Actual

Fernando Nieto

fnietom

1/ It is very common to hear that "network effects" are crucial stopping other assets from replacing current money. But Menger already explained in 1871 that causality mainly goes in

Safdar Alam

SafdarAlam

Please RTTHREADGoldsmiths, paper money and bankingI want to talk about how paper money was first created, and how this has an impact on Islamic banking The development of money has

Alex Johnson

AlexH_Johnson

Random Friday history thread.Today’s thread starts with a question: who is JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the United States, named after? You likely know the first person: John Pierpont

Austerity is Murder🌹

sdgrumbine

Some basics.The US Dollar is a tax credit.It is a unit of measure.You can't run out of inchesYou can't run out of numbersThe government can't run out of dollars... unless

Wallace Kantai

wgkantai

So, online forex trading. And other strategies that promise to make you money after a few sessions of instruction, or reading a few books, or a few months of experience.I

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svldierboy

questions for non-brazilian people (brazilians can answer if u want); a thread if this flops i never made this thread what language do we speak? cw / foodwhat are these?

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maazi_chinedu

How @davido changed the life of a bike-guy who ran errands for them. The story of Fatherdmw! Fatherdmw also hopes to be the Lagos State Governor someday. AlomaDMW disagrees!

Mike Azar

AzarsTweets

I participated in a meeting with BDL Governor Riad Salameh yesterday in which I had the opportunity to ask some of the questions that I have. Well, mainly one question,

Uwagbale Edward-Ekpu

uwagbale_

From 1400s - 1900s, the "Igbu" which the Portuguese referred to as "Mukponoqua or Bini cloth was a currency & sought after commodity by Europeans & West Africans. The cloth