Stupid money

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  • Published 20090901
  • ISBN: 9781921520761
  • Extent: 264 pp
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Shortlisted, 2010 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, Essay Advancing Public Debate


At particular times a great deal of stupid people have a great deal of stupid money… At intervals…the money of these people is particularly large and craving; it seeks for someone to devour it, and there is a ‘plethora’; it finds someone, and there is ‘speculation’; it is devoured, and there is ‘panic’.

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