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Boardroom Talk – ‘Barbarous relic’ is on a tear, proving we’re more Feudal than we’d like to admit
100 years ago, celebrated economist John Maynard Keynes, described the Gold Standard and, by extension bullion itself, as 'a barbarous relic'
We are a complicated species. Parts of us would be comfortable in a science fiction future. Yet, much remains deeply entrenched in the principles of a Feudal Age—where physicality is applied even in the supposedly most genteel of surroundings. You know, like those gentlemen who wear red overalls to Parliament.
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