who wrote it?
"It wasn't until almost dawn that the somber men arrived. . . . Then quiet agreement was reached and hands were shaken, which in this circle carried far more weight than any written contract. The first domino had been steadied. The pillars of the world ceased to tremble. The Credit Bank would open in the morning, and when it did so, bills would be honored, wages would be paid, and the city would be fed.
They'd saved the city with gold more easily, at that point, than any hero could have managed with steel. But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy of gold, the fairy dream that the gold is there, at the end of the rainbow, and will continue to be there forever--provided, naturally that you don't go and look.
This is known as Finance."
All that was written by Terry Pratchett in Going Postal, published in 2004. Funny how prescient he is about "stimulus," a pot of money few can find, drawn from taxes on labor we've yet to perform.
They'd saved the city with gold more easily, at that point, than any hero could have managed with steel. But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy of gold, the fairy dream that the gold is there, at the end of the rainbow, and will continue to be there forever--provided, naturally that you don't go and look.
This is known as Finance."
All that was written by Terry Pratchett in Going Postal, published in 2004. Funny how prescient he is about "stimulus," a pot of money few can find, drawn from taxes on labor we've yet to perform.