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deltahedge:

The History of the World’s “reserve” currency. 

deltahedge:

The History of the World’s “reserve” currency. 

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His purpose was strategic: to show up at the meeting with something so substantive that everyone else would have to fall into the role of simply proposing modifications to it, so that the overall shape, and therefore schedule, of the project would be roughly as he wanted.
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Niall Ferguson lecture on declining empires.

(Source: fora.tv)

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Knights Templar, Banking And Sovereign Default

I didn’t know that Knights Templar brought banking back to Europe in the Middle Ages and were dismantled by King Philip IV of France when his country defaulted on its debt towards the order.

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Currency debasement in Roman and Egyptian empires via 
Dylan Grice Discusses When To Take Profits On Gold: Hint - Not For A Long While

Currency debasement in Roman and Egyptian empires via Dylan Grice Discusses When To Take Profits On Gold: Hint - Not For A Long While

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