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Nicolaus Copernicus (Konstanty Laszczka, Polish sculptor)
Happy birthday, Nicolaus Copernicus!
Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 — May 24, 1543) is primarily known as an exceptional astronomer who formulated the true model of the solar system, which led to an unprecedented change in the human perception of Earth’s place in the universe. This great Pole, who is rightly included among the greatest minds of the European Renaissance, was also a clergyman, a mathematician, a physician, a lawyer and a translator. He also proved himself as an effective strategist and military commander, leading the defence of Olsztyn against the attack of the German Monastic Order of the Teutonic Knights. Later on, he exhibited great organizational skills, quickly rebuilding and relaunching the economy of the areas devastated by the invasion of the Teutonic Knights. He also served in diplomacy and participated in the works of the Polish Sejm.
Copernicus’ scientific achievements in the field of economics were equally significant, and place him among the greatest authors of the world economic thought. In 1517 Copernicus wrote a treatise on the phenomenon of bad money driving out good money. He noted that the“debasement of coin” was one of the main reasons for the collapse of states. He was therefore one of the first advocates of modern monetary policy based on the unification of the currency in circulation, constant care for its value and the prevention of inflation, which ruins the economy. In money he distinguished the ore value (valor) and the estimated value (estimatio), determined by the issuer. According to Copernicus, the ore value of a good coin should correspond to its estimated value. This was not synonymous, however, with the reduction of the coin to a piece of metal being the subject of trade in goods. The ore contained in the money was supposed to be the guarantee of its price, and the value of the legal tender was assigned to it by special symbols proving its relationship with a given country and ruler. Although such views are nothing new today, in his time they constituted a milestone in the development of economic thought.
Additionally Copernicus was not only a theorist of finance, but he was also the co-author of a successful monetary reform, later also implemented in other countries. It was Copernicus, the first of the great Polish economists, who in 1519 proposed to King Sigismund I the Old to unify the monetary system of the Polish Crown with that of its subordinate Royal Prussia.
The principles described in the treatise published in 1517 were decades later repeated by the English financier Thomas Gresham and are currently most often referred to around the world as Gresham’s law. Historical truth, however, requires us to restore the authorship of this principle to its creator, for example through the popularization of knowledge about the Copernicus-Gresham Law. (© NBP - We protect the value of money).
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A 16 century physician found in Thomas Gresham's biography, the huge Carlisle vibes here LOL😂
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'Portrait of Sir Thomas Gresham', painter unknown. Sir Thomas (1519 - 1579) was an English merchant and financier who was a financial adviser on behalf of all three children of King Henry the VIII as each of them inherited the throne and came to rule the country. First he advised King Edward VI (1547–1553) then in turn he advised Edward's half-sisters, Queen Mary I (1553–1558) and lastly for the longest time Elizabeth I (1558–1603). In 1565 Gresham founded the Royal Exchange in the City of London, commonly known now as 'the square mile'.
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bhaat mahotsav in Mumbai celebrates ancient rice
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Love rice? Try varieties you have never tasted, or even heard of before, at The Rice Festival, which will be held on February 4 in Mumbai at Jio World Drive to celebrates native varieties cultivated by India’s tribal communities.
The festival, organised by Gujarat-based OOO Farms, visitors will get to taste, understand and purchase varieties such as Raibhog…
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Sir Thomas Gresham, c.1560-5 by Anthonis Mor van Dashorst (Dutch, 1516/19–1576)
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do you have any book recommendations for us :D
MAYBE SO.......!!!! u know i love talkin abt books!!!
well, ok since ive posted about most of the books ive been reading recently MAYBE i can also post about some that i ordered and am waiting to arrive??? because all of these sounded very interesting to me!!!
SO books i have coming in the mail:
surrealist novels:
the woman in the dunes by kobo abe
the hearing trumpet by leonora carrington
the melancholy of resistance by laszlo krasznahorkai:
the third policeman by flann o'brien
nadja by andre breton
(been really into surrealism lately if it isn't apparent. most excited for melancholy of resistance i think)
horror, gothic, etc:
bruges-la-morte by georges rodenbach
the damned (la-bas) by joris-karl huysmans
floating dragon by peter straub
classics, short stories, etc:
french decadent tales (oxford world's classics) by stephen romer
in watermelon sugar by richard brautigan
swann's way (in search of lost time, #1) by marcel proust
selected short stories by balzac
icefields by thomas wharton
some ive picked up recently & stoked to read:
ada, or ardor by nabokov (my most beloved author of all time)
carmilla by le fanu
nightmare alley by william lindsay gresham
a king alone by jean giono
twilight of the idols by nietzsche
transparent things by nabokov
dark water by koji suzuki
selected poems by jorge luis borges (also beloved)
trolled my goodreads for more recs
books ive read & enjoyed so far this year:
the iliac crest by cristina rivera garza
the tenant by roland topor (FAV!!! huge fav)
crimson labyrinth by yusuke kishi
pedro paramo by juan rulfo
carolina ghost woods by judy jordan
death in her hands by ottessa moshfegh
the unbearable lightness of being by milan kundera
in the lake of the woods by tim o'brien
disgrace by j m coetzee
goth by otsuichi
books i enjoyed from last year:
the lottery & other stories by shirley jackson
the vegetarian by han kang
rosemary's baby by ira levin
piercing by ryu murakami (an all time fav)
the bloody chamber by angela carter (fav)
starve acre by andrew michael hurley (also a fav)
the glassy, burning floor of hell by brian evenson
the devil's larder by jim crace
monstrilio by gerardo samano cordova
and as a bonus, literally anything by nabokov. i have a big book of his short fiction that ive been reading slowly for a long while. despair by him is my fav book of all time, hands down. he is a master of absurdism (and a master of every language he writes in).
ALSO!!!! if youre into poetry, anything and every single thing by: t.s. eliot, baudelaire, rimbaud, borges. i also love neruda's poetry but i have heard he was an awful man so keep that in mind
#thotbox#thotmail#talky cherub#library cherub#i buy 95% of my books secondhand#i have something of a problem but i figure books are not the worst addiction one can have.....OOPS
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The Royal Exchange in London was founded in the 16th century by the merchant Sir Thomas Gresham on the suggestion of his factor Richard Clough to act as a centre of commerce for the City of London
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Today in Christian History
Today is Monday, January 1st, 2024. It is the 1st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; Because it is a leap year, 365 days remain until the end of the year.
404: Last known gladiator fight in Rome. Sometime earlier, Telemachus, a monk from the eastern Roman empire, had been killed by spectators in the Roman Coliseum for attempting to separate gladiatorial combatants. According to church historian Theodoret, when Emperor Honorius learned of this, he declared Telemachus a martyr and abolished the games.
1519: The Swiss Reformation begins when Huldrych Zwingli (pictured above) assumes his duties as priest of Zurich and begins preaching through the Bible.
1622: The Gregorian Calendar, so called because it was promulgated by Pope Gregory XIII, makes January 1st the first day of the year in Catholic countries. Under the Roman calendar, March 25th had been the first day of the year.
1802: In reply to the Danbury Baptist Accociation (of Connecticut), which is concerned that Baptists could be forced to belong to an established church, Thomas Jefferson declares there is “a wall of separation between Church and State,” a phrase which never appears enshrined in the US Constitution, but will later be wrested out of context to deny public expression of religious belief on governmental property.
1824: Over breakfast, David Naismith organizes The Glasgow Young Men’s Society for Religious Improvement. One object spelled out in its constitution is “to establish and promote throughout the city and suburbs associations of Young Men for Mutual Religious Improvement.”
1871: An act to disestablish the Church of Ireland goes into effect, meaning it will no longer be the government-run church of that country.
1927: Kawai Shinsui publicly announces that he is establishing the Christ Heart Church, a Japanese denomination independent of the west.
1937: Death of J. Gresham Machen, a gifted Presbyterian scholar and defender of the Christian faith in the United States. Concerned with a rising tide of liberalism among Presbyterians, he had helped found the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.
1945: Death of Vedanayagam Samuel Azariah, first native-born Anglican bishop of India. He had relinquished leadership in two mission agencies to work in Dornakal, one of the poorest regions of India. Upon his arrival in Dornakal, Christians had numbered 8,000 with six Indian ministers and one hundred and seventy-two lay-workers. By his death the diocese had one hundred and fifty ministers and about three hundred thousand converts despite the opposition of Mahatma Gandhi.
1979: Beginning of the Third General Council of the Latin American Episcopate, held in Puebla, Mexico. It will emphasize popular piety and place special emphasis on the poor.
2011: Muslims in Alexandria, Egypt, bomb the crowded Two Saints Coptic Church, killing more than twenty Christian and wounding scores of others.
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Gresham’s Grasshoppers
Sir Thomas Gresham’s will provided for the founding of Gresham College – the location of free public lectures (and which has previously featured on this blog). Gresham made the money that facilitated this through his career as a merchant and financier, serving Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. However, it was perhaps a clever bit of investing that gave him his biggest income, which was his proposal to build the Royal Exchange at his own expense, in return for a share of the profits from the rental incomes of the shops that would be situated there.
Gresham’s original Royal Exchange opened in 1571, but was then burnt down in the Great Fire of 1666; its successor fared just as well, burning down in 1838. One feature survived both blazes: the weathervane of a golden grasshopper – Gresham’s crest. Another golden grasshopper can be seen a short walk away in Lombard Street, the site of Gresham’s former headquarters.
Why was the grasshopper Gresham’s symbol? A story was told that his ancestor, Roger de Gresham, was abandoned in a field of tall grass as a baby. The noise of a grasshopper attracted a woman to the spot, and she rescued the child. The more likely explanation, however, is that the grasshopper is simply a play on the similarity between the sounds of “grass” and “gres”.
#london#uk#england#grasshopper#symbol#gresham#merchant#royal exchange#golden#crest#weathervane#story#history#travel#tourism#lundene#londinium
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Understanding is a predator’s tool
… but love is also predation.
[Spoilers for Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham, the Hannibal series by Thomas Harris, adapted for NBC by Bryan Fuller, and AMC’s Interview with the Vampire].
Who dares to understand us? Certainly, only someone who loves us would make that terrible effort. But what if love wasn’t the motive–or at least, not the only motive? What if understanding was a weapon? And what if it was a weapon pointed at both ends?
Monsters in horror or horrific tales have various tools at their disposal. Understanding is one of them. They use what they understand of you to manipulate, influence, or otherwise hurt you. This can feel like both a loving gesture and a violation. First, this monster is intimate with you; they have knowledge of you that you believed you’d hidden well, knowledge reserved for someone devoted enough to discover it. Second, this monster shows no kindness to you when they draw out this knowledge and use it to their advantage. The victim feels like their heart has been turned out to the air. It is an attack that is cruel because it is intimate.
What is the effect of this attack? Here’s how the victim of understanding experiences it in William Lindsay Gresham’s “Nightmare Alley,” as he’s being probed by the diabolical psychologist Dr. Lilith Ritter.
When she hounds him to reveal secrets he’s never given up to anyone, including himself, he feels hunted.
“Did he have a deep voice?” [Lilith asks.]
“Yes. How did you know?”
“Never mind. What was he to you?”
“Nothing. That is–”
“What are you thinking about?”
“Damn it, quit deviling me.”
When he threatens her out of weakness, saying he’ll sic gangsters on her, she gives him no face and continues to disarm him.
“I’ve been shouted at before, Mr. Carlisle. But you don’t really know any gangsters. You’d be afraid of them. Just as you’re afraid of me. You’re full of rage, aren’t you? You feel you hate me, don’t you? You’d like to come off that couch and strike me, wouldn’t you?–but you can’t. You’re quite helpless with me. [...].”
A young, handsome grifter who finds pleasure in duping others out of their money, he’s reduced to crawling blindly under her psychological assaults.
He was on his knees, one hand beating at his eyes. He crawled to her and threw his head in her lap. Dr. Lilith Ritter, gazing down at the disheveled corn-colored hair, smiled slightly. She let one hand rest on his head, running her fingers gently over his hair [...].
He worships her despite, or because of, the weakness she strikes into him.
[...] he felt the helpless wonder sweep over him again, the impotence at touching her, the supplication. Twice she had given it to him. She had given it as she might give him a glass of brandy, watching his reactions.
She, of course, enjoys all this immensely.
Dr. Lilith Ritter, at the moment in a very unethical but satisfying position in relation to one of her patients, laughed deep in her throat.
Throughout her manipulations, she refers to her victim as “lover.” But crucially, Lilith is not a lover. She is a “master of herself,” as Anne Carson refers to non-lovers in Eros the Bittersweet; untouched by the madness of love, she is cold, stingy, and eminent. She uses understanding perfectly, as a weapon only, to prey on her patient Stanton Carlisle. Nonetheless, he experiences it as maddening attention and intimacy, because understanding feels the same regardless of intention–it feels like love. It breaks down the desperate, lonely victim who craves even false gestures. It’s perverse because it’s a bastardized act of love, and it hurts because even when it’s bastardized, it feels good.
But let’s look now at monsters who are also lovers.
Dr. Hannibal Lecter, gourmand cannibal, also enjoys the rewards of being a diabolical psychiatrist.
I’ll start with the show by NBC. In Hannibal’s first conversation with Will Graham, the man who would eventually put Hannibal in prison, he speaks to him in words taken straight from Will Graham’s internal narration in the book series, specifically Red Dragon by Thomas Harris.
[Will’s] learned values of decency and propriety tagged along, shocked at his associations, appalled at his dreams; sorry that in the bone arena of his skull there were no forts for what he loved.
Compare this to Hannibal’s observation from 1.01, Aperitif.
HANNIBAL: I imagine what you see and learn touches everything else in your mind. Your values and decency are present yet shocked at your associations, appalled at your dreams. No forts in the bone arena of your skull for things you love.
The dialogue emerges as prose, a fully formed and massaged thought, and perfectly accurate to Will’s mindset—perhaps it felt like a person you’d just met repeating a line word for word from your diary. It’s a particularly effective attack because Will Graham is oversensitive toward the thought of people getting “inside his head.” As it turns out, there are many things in there he’s fearful of others seeing; dissection frightens and weakens him. At that moment, he’s thoroughly disarmed. This is purposeful from Hannibal Lecter’s end, who makes a habit of this attack.
In Hannibal by Thomas Harris, Clarice Starling puts this habit of his this way, when asked how Hannibal Lecter feels about her:
“I think it’s easy to mistake understanding for empathy–we want empathy so badly. [...] It’s hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you. When you see understanding just used as a predator’s tool, that’s the worst. I…I have no idea how Dr. Lecter feels about me.”
Again, despite this ugly, predatory use of a human tool, it still feels like empathy and love. As another character, Barney, says of Hannibal Lecter’s elegant courteousness alongside his monstrosity:
“That didn’t mean he wouldn’t kill me any second if he got the chance–one quality in a person doesn’t rule out any other quality. They can exist side by side, good and terrible.”
The predatory quality of understanding exists alongside the tender quality, and this dual principle is demonstrated throughout Hannibal.
Hannibal Lecter, using his psychiatrist’s understanding, has influenced many of his patients toward his own aims–his own aims being chaos. In short, he lures out the chaotic, murderous urges in his patients, coaxes them to the surface, and allows his victims to destroy themselves or others, all in the service of terror and beauty. He continues this habit with Will, who he finds attractive because of his enhanced empathy and hidden urges.
Before Hannibal is revealed to be who he is, Hannibal and Will’s interactions operate on two threads. On the first strand, Hannibal is Will’s ideal intellectual and verbal companion. They are fond of each other’s company; they discuss horrific murder cases, enjoying the debate as if they were playing moves in chess; they are each other’s accomplices, making one other the fathers of a girl orphaned by their collective efforts. On the face, it’s the most profound intimacy: two men growing closer despite, or maybe because of, the horror they’re immersed in.
On the second strand, Hannibal Lecter is–at every turn–lying to and manipulating Will, destroying his ties to others, and planting evidence that will cause everybody Will knows to abandon him. Their friendship is a deliberate trickery and seduction which Hannibal has employed based on his understanding of Will, and it is successful because he knows Will so well. Beneath it, the violation is profound, whole, and entire; he even makes Will swallow the piece of evidence that will damn him, their surrogate daughter’s severed ear. Nothing he has done to court Will’s friendship has been without motive. In this way, he has used his understanding, which Will experienced as purest, greatest companionship, to victimize Will.
Perhaps he’s even pulled off this predation without attaching himself over much. But notice what happens throughout the story, and is even starting to happen here. Because Hannibal Lecter’s ultimate aim is not sadism–it is, as said, chaos. Will Graham wasn’t a plaything he’d decided to torment just to torment him. Will Graham had a quality that Hannibal wanted to expose in him no matter what, because he found it amusing or exciting: Will’s own monstrosity. Recognizing that Will’s defensiveness hid something Will found unspeakable, he set about ruthlessly exposing it–so that he could love it.
It’s not that he knew he would love it or Will. It began as his habitual whimsy to peel back people’s skin, dissecting them mentally and physically. But then Will exceeds his expectations in this respect. Every layer he exposes in Will, he experiences to be the most amusing, interesting, admirable thing he’s seen in another person. He begins to see a true companion in Will, just as Will falsely saw companionship in Hannibal before Hannibal revealed himself.
So the monster’s aims are complicated by love. He is fascinated beyond professional curiosity, and this blinds him to Will’s next act, who now employs “understanding” to harm Hannibal just as Hannibal harmed him.
This he accomplishes with aplomb. Like Clarice Starling in the book series, he uses his understanding to lure or catch Hannibal Lecter. Clarice does it by knowing him “better than anyone in the world knew him” (Hannibal, Thomas Harris), tracking him by his taste in fine wines and foods. On the other hand, Will does this by giving Hannibal his heart’s desire: the cultivation of Will’s horrific urges as “the inspirations they are,” and his transformation into a killer. Will baits the hook with himself; knowing precisely what Hannibal Lecter wants, he engineers it, pretending to be Hannibal’s heart’s companion in order to entrap him.
But the maddening influence of love makes this strategy imperfect. Will’s retributive manipulation should be cold and effective, even if it’s rageful. But in his plan there is a touch of irrationality, a lack of sensibility; he can’t master his own feelings well enough to use his “understanding” cold-bloodedly.
Nowhere is this lack of mastery clearer than when Will, having spent his efforts maneuvering Hannibal into a trap, frees Hannibal from the snare at the last moment. For example, when he cuts Hannibal down from the machine at the Verger estate before his enemy can be fed to man-eating pigs; or when he calls Hannibal before their “last supper,” during which he planned to arrest and imprison Hannibal, to warn him that the FBI “knows.” Just as Hannibal is compromised by love, which blinds him to evidence of Will’s manipulation, Will is also compromised, unable to entrap Hannibal despite the advantage of his intimate weaponry. Love interferes with predation but also feeds on it; they are only possible together.
Let’s look at one more example: vampires.
The vampire in fiction is a master of others’ desires, and Lestat de Lioncourt is no exception. His preternatural gift for reading the minds of humans makes it easy to understand them; understanding them makes preying on them effortless. Humans are reduced to their desires, which the vampire can easily appeal to or manipulate, often without the victim's knowledge. The tool is perfect. But again, there is the imperfection of love…
When Louis du Pointe du Lac, still human, was understood by Lestat de Lioncourt, it completely disarmed him. Louis was seen, appealed to, and seduced. He was loved so completely and tempted so successfully that he felt it as predation, as he describes it in 1.01, In Throes of Increasing Wonder.
LOUIS: I was being hunted. And I was completely unaware.
Because he feels himself to be prey, metaphors of hunting describe Lestat’s courtship well: pursuit, luring, stalking, hounding. But because he is being understood, and because everybody wants to be understood, it still feels like what it is: seduction. Lestat’s tender attention to Louis’ mysteries unravels him, and he can’t help it. It’s a weakness of humans and even monsters to feel “being seen” as “being loved.”
The metaphors of hunting are often divided, as they are in NBC’s Hannibal, into either “stalking” (as in stag-hunting) or “luring” (as in fishing). There, the distinction is made because Will’s methods are more “lure” than “stalk”: he is the bait, he wants to hook Hannibal. But it’s appropriate to say that every lover in these examples does both; it’s all part of romance, after all.
Lestat, for example, “stalks” by hounding Louis, giving him no peace at his brother’s funeral, filling his mind with enticements, and even pursuing him to a church of God, his last refuge. He is intent on flushing Louis out. He “lures,” however, with softer techniques. In one scene, all he needs to do is walk backward for Louis to follow him. He dangles Miss Lily in front of him in a humiliation and enticement that remains on Louis’ mind long afterward. He offers him gifts: the winning hand, true understanding, a dark gift—chosen at each moment to appeal to what he understands is Louis’ heart’s desire.
These pursuits and lures are effective in each instance because Lestat understands Louis’s plight. His understanding of Louis ensures his words and gestures are exactly right. But it goes beyond manipulation; it is, in fact, love. His ultimate aim when utilizing this vampiric tool isn’t Louis’ destruction, it is his companionship. He disarms Louis out of vampiric habit but is more tender with the vulnerability he exposes than he is with that of the humans he feeds on. He hounds Louis to the edge of his wits, then offers him a gift born of love. He taunts him with Miss Lily, then invites him up to share a night of intimacy together. He pursues Louis in his grief to the church, brutalizes his last resorts, then offers him exaltation and freedom in the form of vampirism.
If he disregarded him, this predator’s tool of his would be both more devastating and less hurtful. If he loved him less, he would hound Louis to the edge of his wits and beyond, leaving him no recourse whatsoever and devastating him completely—but here he pursues Louis to the point and no more. If he was a monster who only wanted to feed on Louis, he would betray him only once, kill him, and be done with it—here he hurts Louis often with his love. This push and pull is a torture that only a lover could invent.
Again, in the hands of the lover this understanding is a double-edged tool; in turn, the vampire Lestat is flayed by his own weakness, perhaps even more than Louis is. Having understood Louis’ heart, Lestat selects him as worthy of his love. If the goal is to hurt Louis without being hurt, this is a mistake. As a lover, Lestat has now put himself in the position of prey, and willingly. He wants nothing more than for Louis to understand and love him as he understands and loves Louis. He is inviting Louis to see him, which will arm Louis against him if Louis ever chooses to hurt him. He puts his habitual weapon, the weapon of understanding, in Louis’ hands. This willful disarming of himself is his only option; vampirism has made him lonely beyond words. He is backed into a corner by love, just as Louis is.
Loneliness makes being understood devastating, but it’s a loneliness that can’t be escaped, that both monsters and humans share. Even Hannibal Lecter and Lestat de Lioncourt are willing to weaken themselves, make themselves mortal for love.
The monster who is also a lover flays their victim out of tenderness, wanting to prey on them, but also desiring to better love and appeal to them. This love, then, ruins them. Even as they inflict understanding on their lovers, they are, in turn, betrayed and victimized themselves.
#iwtv#hannibal#loustat#hannigram#interview with the vampire#nightmare alley#meta#analysis#mine#i really should have worked on actual things today but this kind of consumed me tbh#...#bonafide
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MUSEO IRREVERENTES: “Retrato de Sir Thomas Gresham” (1560-1565)
Antonio Moro (Holandés, 1519-1575)Óleo sobre panel90 x 75.5 cmRijksmuseum (Amsterdam, Países Bajos)
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Argentina en Camino a Inventar la Anti-Ley de Gresham
En estos tiempos acelerados que vive y siente nuestra Argentina, tres meses de un nuevo gobierno reflejan el conocido efecto acordeón de toda política económica.
Si no alcanza con el DNU ómnibus o la ley de bases en sus diferentes versiones, aparece una propuesta de remonetización por demás significativa.
Sir Thomas Gresham (1519-1579) fue un financista que trabajó a las órdenes de Eduardo VI e…
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"Google literally has one job: to detect this kind of thing and crush it. The deal we made with Google was, "You monopolize search and use your monopoly rents to ensure that we never, ever try another search engine. In return, you will somehow distinguish between low-effort, useless nonsense and good information. You promised us that if you got to be the unelected, permanent overlord of all information access, you would 'organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.'"
They broke the deal.
Companies like CNET used to do real, rigorous product reviews. As Housefresh points out, CNET once bought an entire smart home and used it to test products. Then Red Ventures bought CNET and bet that they could sell the house, switch to vibes-based reviewing, and that Google wouldn't even notice. They were right.
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Google downranks sites that spend money and time on reviews like Housefresh and GearLab, and crams botshittened content mills like BH&G into our eyeballs instead.
In 1558, Thomas Gresham coined (ahem) Gresham's Law: "Bad money drives out good." When counterfeit money circulates in the economy, anyone who gets a dodgy coin spends it as quickly as they can, because the longer you hold it, the greater the likelihood that someone will detect the fraud and the coin will become worthless. Run this system long enough and all the money in circulation is funny money.
An internet run by Google has its own Gresham's Law: bad sites drive out good. It's not just that BH&G can "test" products at a fraction of the cost of Housefresh – through the simple expedient of doing inadequate tests or no tests at all – so they can put a lot more content up that Housefresh. But that alone wouldn't let them drive Housefresh off the front page of Google's search results. For that, BH&G has to mobilize some of their savings from the no test/bad test lab to do real rigorous science: science in defeating Google's security-through-obscurity system, which lets them command the front page despite publishing worse-than-useless nonsense.
Google has lost the spam wars."
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Dean Allmark To Be Inducted Into The Sportzwire Radio Hall Of Fame Tuesday 12pm EST/5pm BST
Media Alert: NEW YORK, DECEMBER 2, 2023/THOMAS BRICE/-- Sportzwire Radio the #1 global radio station is proud to announce the newest member of the Sportzwire Radio Hall of Fame Dean Allmark.
Dean Allmark has been an institution in professional wrestling throughout his 23 year career most notably in 2004 for competing as a part of Team Britain during Total Non Stop Action Wrestling's America X-Cup. In 2014 Dean Allmark defended his ASW British Mid-Heavyweight Title in Tokyo Japan against Seiki Yoshioka. Dean Allmark competed for nearly 20 years as a part of All Star Wrestling where he wrestled countless wrestling legends including the likes of TJ Wilson, Colt Cabana, Paul Burchill, The Brooklyn Brawler, and multi-time WWE world champion current AEW superstar Bryan Danielson who Dean Allmark has scored pinfall victories over.
In addition to this Dean Allmark has also wrestled the likes of WWE Hall of Famer Jushin Thunder Liger who Dean Allmark defeated. WWE legend Gangrel who Dean Allmark has also defeated. Impact Wrestling legend Doug Williams, Dean Allmark also teamed alongside current WWE superstar Carlito, and in 2022 Dean Allmark competed for the Ring of Honor world championship against Jonathan Gresham. Dean Allmark returned to in ring action on November 18, 2023 against Brady Phillips, Scotty Rawk, Rob Drake, and Zeo Knox for Undisputed Wrestling. Dean Allmark has also wrestled in France, and Italy and for over 10 years Dean Allmark ran the All Star wrestling school which developed countless professional wrestlers most notably current AEW Women's world champion Timeless Toni Storm.
"Wrestler after wrestler has been influenced by the career of Dean Allmark. Dean Allmark is the true definition of a professional wrestler inside and outside the ring which is why so many wrestlers list him as an influence. Whether it's been as a coach, mentor, or a wrestler Dean Allmark has made a positive difference in the lives of countless professional wrestlers. For all of the reasons above in my 5 year career on Sportzwire Radio interviewing Dean Allmark is one of the defining moments of my career which is why I am honored to induct Dean Allmark as the newest member of the Sportzwire Radio Hall of Fame."--Thomas J. Brice, owner of Sportzwire Radio
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HISTORY ON GRESHAM’S LAWS OF MONEY
Modern financial system All economic activities are carried out by money, although money is used as a standard measure of goods and services, but it has its own value. If a single amount of money is exchanged for more goods and services, it should be understood that the power of money is greater, that is, the value of money is higher in the heart. On the other hand, if a small amount of goods and services can be purchased in exchange for a single currency, then it should be understood that the country’s money power is low and if the price level is high, the quantity of goods can be purchased. That is why currency rules are used to maintain Laws of money.
Definition of Laws of Money
Laws of money is named after Sir Thomas Gresham, adviser to Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom. Which another name is Gresham’s Law of money.
In economics, Gresham’s law is a monetary law that says, “bad money drives out good”.(source-Wikipedia).The law was introduced in the year 1860 by the economist Henry Dunning McLeod After Sir Thomas Gresham(1516-1579) one of the most prominent English financiers in the Tudor dynasty. Gresham had been adamant with Queen Elizabeth to reinstate confidence in the devalued English currency.
Gresham’s Laws of Money
When two types of superior and inferior currencies exist side by side in the market as prescribed currencies, the inferior currency drives the superior currency out of the market but the superior currency cannot drive the inferior currency out of the market.
1.Monometallism: When the old depreciated currency and the new other weighted currency are in circulation simultaneously, the superior currency is driven out by the inferior currency. A metal standard system was in place when Queen Elizabeth appealed to Sir Gresham to make the best coins disappear from the market by paying off foreign debts and melting them down.
2.Bimetallism: When silver and gold were in circulation side by side, gold disappeared from the currency market because the overvalued base metal always drove out the undervalued metal.
3.Paper Currency: When paper currency and metal currency coexist, paper currency drives metal currency out of the market, as in the United States during the Civil War and in Britain during World War.
Manner of coming into force of the Rules
How inferior currency drives out superior currency. Three factors can be mentioned for the rule to be effective, for these three factors the inferior currency drives the superior currency out of the market.
1.Reserved: Naturally, the public tries to hoard the superior currency and not the inferior currency
2. Melter: As the new coins contained real weight of metal, people melted them down to make ornaments in anticipation of higher earnings, which would gradually drive the gold coins out of the market and keep the coins in circulation.
3. Foreign debt payout: Usually the currency of one country does not move to another country so in foreign trade foreigners want to accept the better religion instead of the local currency, as a result the better currency is driven out of the market and the inferior currency prevails.
Conclusion
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