They paid, for the most part, with the funny money of their own inflated stock.
The poison of funny money goes far beyond the actual value of the currency itself.
This is mostly from the Keynesian camp: they need floating currencies to play their funny money games.
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These economists are convinced that they could deal with any sort of economic problem with their funny money toolkit.
Humans have had many, many experiences with funny money, and consequently, with the broad societal disintegration it tends to produce.
The purpose of funny money is to solve some kind of problem whose fundamental cause is typically not monetary at all.
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With Facebook gearing up for its own megabucks floatation, Rovio has been caught up in the ongoing debate about funny money.
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The German case is an extreme example, but the same processes are at work, in a more subtle way, wherever funny money is found.
Back to the days when they could listen to Louis Armstrong on the radio, while drinking coffee in a local bar and ripping off the tourists with their funny money.
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That said, if excess funny money is flowing into the stock market backed by rapacious buyers offering a weakened dollar for shares, then by definition there are individuals exiting the very same stock market.
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It will be aired during the Funny for Money programme on BBC One on 15 March.
They will stop searching for a way to solve nonmonetary problems with funny-money solutions.
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It is funny, but the people in life who are primarily motivated by money or security often end up losing whatever they gain, whereas those who follow their passion end up making far more money than they ever desired.
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You know, the funny thing about this is, economists always tell Americans that they need to save more money.
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