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I'm broke, you're broke, we're all broke. Even the smug guy on the balcony with the croissant hasn't got two AmEx gold cards to rub together these days. Tell everybody your schemes to save cash.

(, Thu 10 Nov 2011, 18:09)
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Make your own money by simply writing IOUs instead.
I mean, that's all cash is anyway, isn't it, eh kids?
(, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 9:18, 1 reply)
I don’t know how money was invented, but I'm sure it went something like this.
King: I have pillaged and taxed all the gold from the hardworking people of my land and now I shall spend it and live like…erm… a king!

Banker: I suppose you could do that. But then you’d be giving all that lovely gold away.

King: But I want to live like a king!

Banker: Why don’t you still live like a king, but give people a bit of paper with a picture of you on one side and some other bloke on the other instead.

King:….?

Banker: Then you can keep the gold.

King: Keep the Gold!

Banker: Keep the gold.

And twelfty thousand years later Goldman Sachs is selling dodgy mortgage derivatives to defraud it’s own clients.
(, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 9:42, closed)

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