Welcome to the smear...

Sorry. Also a professional economist with a specialty in Historical Econ. Sort of my cup of tea.

Then overlay today's Wall St. and Crypto approach and you will be absolutely gobsmacked that we have learned NOTHING from the past.

I just finished. Pay very close attention to the ways in which the Wall St. Bankers were completely blind to their own ineptitude and inherent corruption, as well as the Laissez-faire "Markets Will Figure it Out" approach so baked into everyone's thinking.

Given that the Tree is a German tradition and Grimms Fairy tales are all dark and foreboding, this totally makes sense.

If you measure it in "Rads" how can you possibly expect it to be taken seriously?

Actually, anyone who wishes to comfort me may send books on the origins of money in Ancient China and the Korean Peninsula (English Translations if possible).

This ends the TMI portion of my Skeeting for the night.