A library, not a pile of summaries.
Seven fixed fields on every page, at three depths you choose per point. And a record of which books back each other and which ones do not — which is the part a pile cannot do.
Every summary in the library.
2010s
2018 The Bitcoin Standard The only property that decides whether something becomes and stays money is how hard it is to produce more of it, which makes bitcoin the successor to gold rather than a payment technology. 1↑2↓ 2011 Debt Credit and debt reckoning came thousands of years before coinage, so the moral certainty that debts must always be repaid is not a fact about obligation but a political settlement that has been renegotiated many times. 1↑3↓1970s
1976 Denationalisation of Money A government monopoly on money is not a public utility that occasionally fails but the mechanism that produces the failure, and nothing short of competing issuers will end it. 2↑3↓1960s
1963 A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 Money is a cause of American business fluctuations rather than a record of them, and the case rests on 1929-33, when the Federal Reserve let the stock of money fall by a third and had at every stage the means to prevent it. 2↑2↓Nothing matches that. The library is small; it will not have everything.
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