Economics

This is a subset of my collection of passages and charts found in books and articles I read on a daily basis.

This subset is focused on the Economics topic.
Average Hourly Salaries Across Europe (2014)
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Asset Class Total Returns Since 2011
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Annual Change in World Population
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Distribution of World's GDP from 1970 to 2020
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It's the Fed that had the power to print money, not the US government
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Fiat money —mere pieces of paper, intrinsically worthless, that were treated as money only because the US insisted that they should be
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The history of paper money in Europe starts with the Venetian government levying a compulsory loan to pay for war
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While debt among each other was normal for English villagers, it was associated with criminality in government and commerce circles
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Middle Ages Scholastics, like Aristotle, viewed money as a mere social convention
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How and why China moved from bullions and cash to paper money
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