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Monalisa Made with cash 💰

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Erin M. Riley

Bundle 2, 2019

wool, cotton, 48 x 39 inches

MONEY BLOCKAGES

If your parents used phrases like “money is evil” or “money is hard to come by” then you’ve been conditioned to think like this. These limiting beliefs create resistance to abundance by focusing on fear, negativity or lack.   

Having the belief that money is evil or hard to come by creates an impression of how you act in regards to finances. If you believe that money is evil, you could sabotage your own success because you fear what money could do to you once obtained. If you believe money is hard to come by then you’ll put forth a vibration of desperation. 

Money is a tool, it is not good or evil. What you decide to do financially can result in good or evil. If you choose to donate some of your money, that can result in good. If you choose to spend your money on substances, that can result in evil. If the drugs you bought cause a realization, that can result in good. If you give your money to a charity that is a scam, that can result in evil. 

Believing money is hard to come by is a scarcity mindset. This mindset unfortunately gives you tunnel vision and blocks out all the possibilities that can create abundance in your life. There’s an old tea set sitting in your garage that you could sell online for a few hundred dollars, you could rent your snow-blower to your neighbors in the winter, or provide online tutorials on how to organize your home or train your dog (start on your personal page, see if there’s demand and get testimonials) 

Re-conditioning yourself about your financial beliefs is essential for you to attract and manifest the wealth you want. Our subconscious is programmed through emotions and repetition. You must feel good about finances when you are repeating a money mantra to yourself, or you won’t attract wealth. Your frequency is the key to manifesting, your mantra directs the focus of your mind. This fusion of frequency and focus is the recipe. (Pre-heat oven to 444°)

MONEY MANTRAS: 

I am a magnet for wealth 

I am abundant

Money loves me

I make money effortlessly 

Opportunities are everywhere

Don’t fight the old, build new pathways. Focus on building a new money mindset; that means when old beliefs bubble up, don’t entertain them. Ignore them and say a new mantra that resonates with you (check out Pinterest for some more) and feel good about money when you do so.  

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Portraits of Obama and Romney  made from currency by artist Mark Wagner.

In the artwork “Money Can Buy Love”, the 2 big word is “money” and also “love. In a relationship, there will always be money and love but it changes when how do we define the money and love. As mention in the artwork money can buy love, i believe it will provoke the society today but not during that time because those words were really true. Rich husbands and wife during  that time showed their love as an act in the society but not exactly between themselves because women were always stifled by the way men treats  them. The white highlighted on the word “money and “love” showed confirmation but the three black small highlighted words “can”, “buy”, “love” seems like there is still some  dark and unsure answer towards the rights of genders.

Barbara Krueger

50 Euro Note-Print Wallet by Maison Martin Margiela

Moneybags Musa’s Wild and Crazy Pilgrimage!!!

Between the 13th and 16th centuries one of the wealthiest and most powerful empires in the world was the Mali Empire, located in what is now west Africa. It’s mighty army numbers over 100,000 at a time when France and England could barely muster an army over ten thousand. It ruled over millions of people. It’s capital, Timbuktu, served as a center of culture, wealth, and learning in Africa. Most importantly, because of it’s geographical location, the Mali Empire controlled an important network of trade routes between Europe, the Middle East, and sub-Saharan Africa, making the empire fabulously wealthy.

At it’s height, Mali was ruled by the powerful king Mansa Musa, who reigned from 1312  to 1337. Being the sovereign of a fabulously wealth empire meant of course that Musa himself was fabulously wealthy. In fact, he was so wealthy that he is often credited as the wealthiest man in history. It is extremely difficult to estimate how wealthy he was by modern standards, however most estimates claim around $400 billion US. By contrast Jeff Bezos’ net worth is around $118 billion. Whether this number is accurate or not, it is undeniable that Mansa Musa was seriously loaded.

Musa was a devout Muslim, and as such conducted a pilgrimage to Mecca in the years 1324-1325. When one usually thinks of a religious pilgrimage, especially in the Middle Ages, typically extreme hardship and sacrifice comes to mind. NOT FOR MONEYBAGS MUSA!. Musa made sure that on his pilgrimage to Mecca he would be traveling in style and luxury the likes of which the world had never seen. Making up his procession were 60,000 servants and slaves as well as hundreds of draft animals that carried all his “necessities”. Among his possessions was a large amount of gold. Each servant and slave carried around 1.8kg (4 lbs) of gold, while 80 camels carried around  23–136 kg (50–300 lb) of gold. Altogether he carried around 116,119 kg (256,000 lbs) of gold, worth around $5 billion US today.

Mansa Musa was very generous with his gold when his procession traveled across North Africa and the Middle East. Throughout every city, village, and town he would spend money like a drunken sailor, blowing money so fast that he would make the average US Congressman blush. He bought fine clothes, antiquities, fine foods, and other valuable collectibles. He would also donate large sums of money to local mosques, or commission the building of new mosques. He was extremely generous to the poor, donating to charitable organizations and  surprising beggers and panhandlers with bags full of gold. Often, when parading through a city, he would have his servants toss gold coins to spectators. Mansa Musa’s wild pilgrimage would cement his legacy of wealth for centuries to come.

And he would completely devastate the economy of the Arabia and North Africa for the next decade. What Mansa Musa didn’t understand, in fact what few people understood at the time was the concept of inflation. The value of money is based upon it’s rarity. When more money is added to the money supply without an equal rise in the amount of goods and services, money losses value. If an extremely large amount of money enters the money supply very quickly a situation can occur called “hyperinflation”, where the economy is overwhelmed with too much money, making money itself almost worthless.

When Mansa Musa made his return trip to his empire he noticed that cities which were once thriving economies had been devastated by severe economic depression and had become bastions of poverty. What had happened? As it turns out due to Mansa Musa’s extreme generosity with his gold, he had flooded the local economy with so much gold that gold itself had become worthless. The consequences were dire. People saw their life savings made worthless overnight. Businesses and trade collapsed. The local populace had regressed from societies of complex trade to primitive barter. Unemployment, poverty, and homelessness reached epic levels while crime skyrocketed. Mansa Musa had made a big mistake.

Musa tried to fix the situation by selling back the items that he had purchased and taking large, high interest loans from moneylenders in order to contract the money supply. However the damage had been done, and many of the lands he visited would be gripped by economic depression for the next decade.

While we are talking about currency here is a look at what i think is one of the coolest currencies… tanzanian shillings! super cool coin designs and shapes for the lower currencies, and fantastic art on the notes. really awesome stuff

1901 $10 bill

United States currency (from $5 to $100) of the late 1800s 

From the SMU Library’s Digital Collection 

i learned that the first U.S official coin in circulation, the Fugio Cent, designed by Benjamin Franklin had the insignia “Mind Your Business” instead of the modern design “In God we Trust” and had 13 chain rings on the back representing the 13 states (x)