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Old 30th March 2009
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Originally Posted by jpc View Post
Until the day you have to start paying back some of it.
I agree with you its a construct, but in order to put some kind of sense to the enormity of what it is you need a physical reference.
All the mined gold since the day man thought.
"I like the look of that " would fit in two olympic size swimming pools.
Gold is physical, so that is a good thing to think of in physical terms.

Money is an idea. How many ideas would fit in a swimming pool?
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