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This is Lewes in Sussex, who have recently launched the Lewes Pound, a currency that you can only spend within the town, as a way of starting to cycle money within the local economy.
The United States actually is a country that is the reserve currency of the world.
Now, the Euro was a newly born currency of great opportunity for business, and, of course, for investment.
Social plastic is money, a globally recognizable and tradable currency that, when used, alleviates poverty and cleans the environment at the same time.
Bhutan's created the ultimate export, a new global currency of well-being, and there are 40 countries around the world today that are studying their own GNH.
What you're looking at over here is actually the first unit that I know of of non-human currency.
But this is the unit of currency that we've taught our monkeys at Yale to actually use with humans, to actually buy different pieces of food.
And so we said, well, what would the monkeys spontaneously do if this was really their currency, if they were really using it like money?
And what we'd really thought we'd done is like we'd actually introduced something that, at least for the monkeys and us, works like a real financial currency.
Well, what we've shown is that, first of all, we can actually give the monkeys a financial currency, and they do very similar things with it.
In most adventure games, it's a little bit in-game currency, a little bit experience.
What happened was, they paid each other a virtual currency they called "dragon kill points."
This is a player-developed, self-enforcing, voluntary currency, and it's incredibly sophisticated player behavior.
Someone thought that entering 'Enron' into the script would give it currency when discussing power companies.
(And counterfeiting currency is a federal crime, so where the hell is the FBI?
Much like the currency in the opening moments of the film, the story floats along magically until you are emotionally "invested" in its outcome.
In order to support their lavish lifestyle, the three use the services of a counterfeiter, and use the notes at the casinos, hoping to exchange the bogus currency for a jackpot.
When i first saw the title i was already deducing the theme of the film - it clearly wasn't a reference to British currency, so it had to be Shakespearian and about pounds of flesh - taking them, or giving them.
I grew up literally 200 metres from the place where Veronica Guerin was shot, so the issue and the politics have been common currency and the story was well known to me before I belatedly saw this film.
A true gem-the writing is great, the cast is perfect, and the arch, somewhat affected performances more than do the trick-that's who these people are! Arch, affected, wanna be know it all rich kid snobs whose currency in life is their intellect and class standing.
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Some historians believe that war is man's natural state of being and that would give this old movie currency beyond the coincidence of whether a big war is happening when the movie is viewed.
This takes place in the future, in a post-apocalyptic time where natural food is so difficult to come by, it's used as currency.
The whole town assists in deliberately causing accidents and then use the parts and accessories as currency to buy stuff in the shops.
I know there are those of you that believe ST: TNG was better and I wont even argue with the Original Trekkies but for my viewing currency, Deep Sapce Nine is without equal!
Around this central crying improbability there cluster a dozen others, hardly less egregious: The John C. Reilly character would really have agreed in twenty seconds to the offer of the currency expert not to reveal that the note was a fake in return for a share of the money?
Hardly, since it is hard to imagine a simpler way for the mark to find out that the note he was buying WAS indeed a fake than to send the currency expert along with just such an offer?
It has seven numbers (Whistling in the Light of Day, Secretary of the Sultan, Injun Gal, Till the All Clear Came, You're The Rainbow, Get Your Man, Willie, the Wolf of the West) - all completely forgettable, as is the dull plot re a young man (Powell) trying to raise money to work a mine, the daughter of the man he has hoodwinked (Lamour) and a counterfeiter (Moore) who proposes not to pass bad currency but to simply flourish it in the belief that those who believe someone has money will be willing to invest in projects.
The forty years of fiscal irresponsibility that began with Lyndon Johnson's final debasement of our currency has reduced the once-mighty dollar to subatomic dimensions; and at the rate the current administration continues to pile up debt, it will not be long before it will take Avogadro's number of the wretched things just to buy a handyman's special, dry-rotted, termite-infested two-bedroom firetrap in the middle of a malarial swamp.
The fact that this film was by far the biggest draw of its year at the British box office makes it far more interesting, as a historical document of the culturally regressive preferences of a population on the verge of the 'progress' of currency decimalisation, than as an otherwise ineffably disturbing episode in British cinema history.
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