When a country goes off the gold or silver standard in
favor of paper money, many people hoard gold or silver coins.
Not exact matches
Like gold, cryptos are
favored by those who have a deep distrust
of fiat currency, or
paper money.
Those assertions, made in pre-sentencing prosecution
papers cited in a defense memo, said the amount
of money the former party leader illegally took was more than $ 400,000, and that he obstructed justice by attempting to get three potential witnesses to falsely testify in
favor of his defense.
In practice, fusion has become a game for the political elite, with endorsements by «
paper parties» like the Working Families Party, Conservative Party, and Independence Party usually earned in back room deals with implicit — or explicit — trades
of political
favors and campaign cash (a recent NYPIRG investigative report found that the Working Families Party gets most
of its
money from the Democratic Party).
A recurring motif in Motti's work is
paper currency, which the artist uses as a symbol for the ambiguous materials behind the power structures
of Western civilization and in reference to the European Union's press to eliminate the use
of paper cash in
favor of electronic
money.