Apparently, an English woman has been fined approximately 65,000 pounds for the crime of selling vegetables by the pound. The irony of charging "pounds sterling" (actually "pounds worthless fiat" today) for this crime apparently escaped the barristers and judges.
I'm looking forward to a new British currency called the "kilogram sterling", worth approximately (at current prices for silver) about 130 quid.
Podcast #1,100: Money and Meaning — What Faith Traditions Teach Us About
Personal Finance
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We usually think of money as something very practical, concrete, and
secular; we earn it, save it, spend it, and crunch the numbers behind it.
But mone...
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