Finance
Money, markets, and economic phenomena
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Finance
The Medici Bank bypassed religious bans on interest by disguising loans as currency exchanges
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Finance
The world's first paper currency collapsed after the Song dynasty printed too much of it
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Finance
A 16th-century banking family built a social housing project that still charges medieval rent
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Finance
Automatically enrolling employees in savings plans increases participation rates from 20 to 90 percent
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Finance
Investors are statistically more likely to sell winning stocks while holding onto losing ones
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Finance
Financial bubbles are often driven by investors mimicking others rather than analyzing value
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Finance
A decentralized financial network can settle global transactions using less energy than a small country
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Finance
International trade laws can now tax products based on their embedded carbon emissions
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Finance
Global payment networks now use international concert tours to standardize financial infrastructure
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Finance
A fifty-year-old trade law allows a single leader to bypass global courts to impose tariffs
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Finance
A single gallon of gasoline contains enough energy to lift a car 26 miles vertically
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