National Credit. Such a corporate image of credit depended, 
then as now, on the fast and comprehensive information 
movement that we have taken for granted for two centuries 
and more. At that stage of the emergence of public credit, 
money assumed the further role of translating, not just local, 
but national stores of work from one culture to another.

     One of the inevitable results of acceleration of 
information movement and of the translating power of money 
is the opportunity of enrichment for those who can anticipate 
this transformation by a few hours or years, as the case may 
be. We are particularly familiar today with examples of 
enrichment by means of advance information in stocks and 
bonds and real estate. In the past, when wealth was not so 
obviously related to information, an entire social class could 
monopolize the wealth resulting from a casual shift in