But this is the importance of the coin: it makes us think about what money is, because almost everyone out there has no idea.

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What fun it is to think about all that new, Fed-created money bubbling into the markets, pushing up everything in its path.

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But I noted a reluctance to engage with a central question about Value for Money in Policing - what is it that we value?

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His often-contradictory nine points aside, the key to the success or failure of 3D will obviously be whether or not audiences think the difference is consistently worth the money, no matter what anyone says about it -- or how awesome it makes sports look.

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The problem becomes though, what is it of yours, or about you, that they are selling to get their money?

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"So what we're going to have to do is be creative about it, help people using less money and giving them actually slightly less in-depth advice, and that is a tragedy for many many hundreds of thousands of people, " he said.

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Investors lock in their money for ten years, and do not hear much about what it is being used for or how it is performing until the fruits are harvested.

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While Chichi (and expensive) hedge funds make for fun cocktail chatter, what's really sexy is making--and keeping--some serious money and not getting stressed about it.

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Human nature being what it is, we soon forget the pain caused by recessions and go back to our previous ineffective habits and beliefs about money.

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