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LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
Literally seconds ago, I returned to my desk, after getting into a heated discussion about the transfer pricing rules in India. A colleague of mine and I were debating the royalty percentage to be paid for the intangible rights to manufacture a certain product in a particular province in India. Exhausted from that discussion, and looking to continue my pleasure reading of the internal revenue code, I returned to my desk.

To my delight, I noticed a package on my desk. I started sweating bullets when I noticed it was in a plain brown wrapper, and wondered what it could be getting delivered to the office. I further started sweating when I noticed that Dennis Tucker was sending me a package in a plain brown wrapper to my office. image

Throwing caution to the wind, I decided to open it. To my relief, it was a review copy of the new book called "Curious Currency", by Robert Leonard. Although I have not had a chance yet to read through it, I can say it is a delightful little book, comprising of approximately 154 pages, printed on the finest glossy paper using Chinese presses. A review of the table of contents shows various chapters dealing with "What is Money?", "Ornaments", and "Money Substitutes". A Foreword by Ken Bressett is also in the offing, as well as detailed endnotes and a bibiography.

Though slim, the book looks highly interesting. I am visiting Beijing in mid-May, and I plan to take this book along because it is the perfect travel size. I can offer a full review at that point, or perhaps one sooner.
Always took candy from strangers
Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)

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  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭
    At first I thought maybe the return address was from "Smiling Bob"
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  • SkyManSkyMan Posts: 9,515 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Plain brown wrapper huh? It must have some outre pictures of ladies on assorted currency...
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    OK, OK, now that we have seen the smoke and mirrors, what was REALLY in that plain brown wrapper??? HMMMMM???? image Cheers, RickO
  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
    <As I returned to my desk, I found a package in a plain brown wrapper waiting for me...>

    I thought maybe you ordered something from that dirtygold website. MJ
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  • COALPORTERCOALPORTER Posts: 2,900 ✭✭
    If I found a strange mystery package on my desk, I would give it to an intern to open while I went down the hall for coffee. image
  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,340 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hopefully, it's worth having rebound in fine dragon leather at a flea market bindery somewhere while you're there.
  • DentuckDentuck Posts: 3,824 ✭✭✭
    Longacre, don't let that book fall into
    the wrong hands in the mystical Orient!

    The last thing we need is a flood of
    counterfeit elephant tails, woodpecker
    scalps, Irish slave girls, chocolate bars,
    human skulls, Katanga crosses, kissi pennies,
    whale's teeth, and other "odd and curious" money.



    Although....... if we could somehow divert
    the counterfeiters' time and energy into recreating
    massive six-foot-tall Yap stones, we might keep a
    few million 1804 Bust dollars per annum off the market.


  • derrybderryb Posts: 37,704 ✭✭✭✭✭
    As you returned or after you returned?

    No Way Out: Stimulus and Money Printing Are the Only Path Left

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