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- From: jcarroll@ferris.cray.com (Jeff Carroll)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: Quatloos
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.213420.12782@walter.cray.com>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 03:34:20 GMT
- References: <BxF9C3.4I0@rice.edu>
- Sender: jcarroll@ferris (Jeff Carroll)
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- In article <BxF9C3.4I0@rice.edu>, caz@owlnet.rice.edu (HWRNMNBSOL) writes:
- > Quatloos are dated. They are also easy to forge, and are not competing well
- > against the Yen. In the closing days of the Third Reich, stamps for as many
- > as five million Quatloos were issued.
- >
- > My proposal: The new unit of T.B. currency should be:
- >
- > The 'Yarvin'.
- >
- > --
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- Hear, hear. As any modern non-crank economist will tell you, the ideal
- currency is something that has no intrinsic value of its own.
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- jkc (who got better grades in econ than in his major)
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