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Emotional Currency

Hidden Brain

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Money, in Some Ways, Was a Tool of Colonization

The images you see on a bill or a coin can say a great deal about a nation's values and aspirations. Bill says, political authority is drawn not just from issuing money, but from the act of designing it. "I think money has always been a tool of political authority"

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