Table of Contents
2008 Spring
About Money
Introductory
Voices in Time
Exchange Rates
- James Buchan Recalls His Vision in the Desert: 1997 / London
- Karl Marx Drafts a Social Contract: 1844 / Paris
- Aristophanes Pays His Respects to the Majesty of Cash: 388 BC / Athens
- Roger Starr Defends the Dollar: 1976 / New York City
- Lingua Franca: 1964 / Toronto
- Alpha and Omega: 1851 / Frankfurt
- Lord Byron Draws the Distinction Between Honey and Wax: 1822 / Pisa
- Vladimir Nabokov Pays the Piper: 1955 / New England
- Balancing Accounts: 1780 BC / Babylon
- Jean-Paul Sartre Changes Subject into Object: 1943 / Paris
- Terms of Endearment: c. 1130 / Paris
- Playing the Market: c. 1850 / Mississippi River
- Adam Smith Sets the Price for Toil and Trouble: 1776 / Kirkcaldy
- Blessed Are the Poor: 1860 / London
- Trade Agreement: c. 1608 / Venice
- Blessed Souls: 1949 / Buenos Aires
- Protective Tariffs: 814 / Aix-la-Chapelle
- Gray example alt: 1651 / Paris
- Clearance Sale: 1859 / Savannah
- Deed of Sale: c. 1600 / China
- Reparations: 1987 / West Germany
- Nikolai Gogol's Price Points: 1842 / Russia
- Low Risk, High Yield: 2002 / Houston
- Long-Term Investment: c. 1930 / Los Angeles
Earnings
- Daniel Loeb Suffers a Year-End Loss: 2005 / Wall Street
- Benjamin Franklin’s Bottom Line: 1748 / Philadelphia
- Special Interest: 1469 / Florence
- Invoice: 1778 / Paris
- Street Fair: c. 1930 / Peking
- Ayn Rand Endorses Piracy: 1957 / New York City
- Competitive Edge: c. 350 BC / Magadha
- Geoffrey Chaucer Attends a Sales Pitch: c. 1390 / London
- Henry Ford on the Road to Riches: 1922 / Detroit
- Iharu Saikaku Tells a Cautionary Tale: 1688 / Osaka
- Hostile Takeovers: c. 600 BC / Greece
- Livestock: 1790 / Philadelphia
- John Locke Gathers Acorns: 1690 / London
- Blood Money: c. 1935 / Alabama
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Resolves a Financial Crisis: c. 1520 / Holy Roman Empire
- Fyodor Dostoevsky Lets It Ride: 1866 / Roulettenburg
- Money in Trees: c. 1280 / Kanbalu
- Cutting Corners: 1678 / London
- Confessions of a Counterfeiter: c. 1800 / Quebec
- John Dos Passos Probates the Estate of J. P. Morgan: c. 1919 / New York City
Liquidity
- Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Works a Budget: c. 1995 / The Bronx
- Tom Wolfe Adds Up the Score: 1976 / Manhattan
- Sound Advice: 1763 / London
- Alexis de Tocqueville Observes a Host of Modest Fortunes: 1832 / America
- Juvenal Lives Beyond His Means: c. 105 / Rome
- Joan Didion Breaks Even: 1973 / Hollywood
- Barry Lyndon Engages in the Work of a Gentleman: c. 1763 / Prussia
- George Orwell Does the Math: 1933 / Paris
- Anton Chekhov Runs the Numbers: 1887 / Russia
- John Law's Irrational Exuberance: 1719 / Paris
- Undine Spragg Tacks East: 1913 / Central Park
- Rabbit Angstrom Corners a Market in Gold: 1981 / Pennsylvania
- Means to an End: 1918 / London
- Making It: 1994 / Brooklyn
- Jane Austen Conceives a Marriage: 1813 / Netherfield
- Seneca Practices the Simple Life: c. 64 / Rome
- Elias Canetti Depreciates Two Currencies: 1960 / London
- Window Shopping: 1941 / Fifth Avenue
Expenditures
- Up There with Donald Trump: 1997 / Fifth Avenue
- Louis XIV Redecorates a Swamp: c. 1715 / Versailles
- Live Thrushes: c. 61 / Campania
- The Cup Runneth Over: c. 1986 / Wall Street
- Designer Dress: 1824 / Zululand
- A Cheap Coat Makes a Cheap Man: 1899 / Chicago
- J.-K. Huysmans Bejewels His Tortoise: 1884 / Fortenay
- Allowances: 1750 / London
- Cleopatra's Pearls: c. 40 BC / Alexandria
- William Randolph Hearst at Ease in Zion: 1946 / San Simeon
- Stairway to Heaven: 2001 / Sardinia
- The Gospel According to Andrew Carnegie: 1889 / Pittsburgh
- Realpolitik: 1516 / Florence
- Nero's Golden House: c. 60 / Rome
- Philanthropy: c. 1898 / New York City
Derivatives
- James J. Cramer Waves Goodbye: 2007 / New York City
- Washington Irving Beholds the Stuff that Dreams Are Made Of: 1837 / New York City
- Lost at Sea: 1721 / London
- Book Review: 1967 / Milan
- Antebellum Kapital: 1836 / Washington, D.C.
- Love in the Afternoon: 2000 / German/Czech Border
- John the Apostle Sends for the Fires of Heaven: c. 70 / Babylon
- Fatwa: 1540 / Wittenberg
- Major Barbara Meets Her Maker: 1905 / London
- Cicero Brings an Indictment: 70 BC / Rome
- A Galaxy Far, Far Away: 1516 / Utopia
- Illiquid Assets: c. 800 BC / Sparta
- INRI: 1896 / Chicago
- John Maynard Keynes Forsees a Fatal Change: 1930 / Cambridge
- The New South: 1903 / Atlanta
- Rise and Fall: 63 BC / Rome
- Point of Order: 1841 / Paris
- Brown Gold: 1908 / Vienna
- For Everything Else There’s MasterCard: 1848 / London
Departments
Essays
- Prometheus Unbound: by Jack Weatherford
- Funny Money: by Edward Castronova
- Arts Endowment: by Tim Parks
- Fortune’s Wheel: by Jackson Lears
Conversations
Letters
What If...?
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