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Re: Merkel Does The Devil's Work (4.00 / 3)
As an aside, I suspect every culture has some protean myths about the dangers of paper money.

I can't remember the details now, but my Indian grandfather had a favourite story of the Mughal Emperor who introduced paper money - and how within months the artisans of every city had perfected forging it... and the (hyper) inflation that resulted.

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Mon Aug 26th, 2013 at 06:06:12 AM EST

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