re: #388 Backwoods_Sleuth

Lately, whenever someone starts up that worthless paper money vs the wonderfulness of gold, I just remind them that paper covers rock.
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Part of the interest I had with Stephenson’s _The Baroque Cycle_ was that the characters in the novels were dealing with the beginnings and underpinnings of what developed into the modern banking and capitalization systems.

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