The ‘value’ of money is something that I get a lot of emails and direct messages about. People worry about it being unbacked, and about Zeitgeist-y Central Banks. This morning, I wanted to share this short clip from TedTalks, given by Doug Levison. I think it’s a remarkably simple (and almost a-political) explanation of how we get value out of paper:

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Happy Thursday.

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