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#53: Edward Chancellor On What History Can Teach Us About The True Cost Of Easy Money

Superinvestors and the Art of Worldly Wisdom

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The Price of Time

The charging of interest in the ancient world was criticised by very distinguished philosophers such as aristotle and plato. And they said that, a, that the lender shouldn't charge more than he or she had given at the outset. But once you put sot of mankind at the centre of your civilization, not god, then time belongs to man. Time is man's most precious possession.

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