#currency — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #currency, aggregated by home.social.
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Palembang pitis, historical currency used by the Palembang Sultanate.
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Palembang pitis, historical currency used by the Palembang Sultanate.
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Iranian toman, superunit of Iranian currency.
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Iranian toman, superunit of Iranian currency.
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Friedrich d'or, Prussian gold coin (pistole) nominally worth 5 silver Prussian Reichsthalers.
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Friedrich d'or, Prussian gold coin (pistole) nominally worth 5 silver Prussian Reichsthalers.
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South Korean hwan, (1953–1962) former currency.
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South Korean hwan, (1953–1962) former currency.
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Live: Wall Street edges higher on US inflation data, ASX set to slide
By Stephen LettsWall Street broke two days of losses after US inflation came in as expected but the ASX is priced for a marginal loss. Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-13/asx-markets-business-live-news/107030738
#StockMarket #FinancialMarkets #Currency #Cryptocurrency #Economy #CompanyNews #StephenLetts
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Live: Wall Street edges higher on US inflation data, ASX set to slide
By Stephen LettsWall Street broke two days of losses after US inflation came in as expected but the ASX is priced for a marginal loss. Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-13/asx-markets-business-live-news/107030738
#StockMarket #FinancialMarkets #Currency #Cryptocurrency #Economy #CompanyNews #StephenLetts
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A new blog post, the five most non-common currencies in human history: https://payhip.com/syrinxandspear/blog/news/5-bizarre-currencies-of-global-history
#history #finance #financialtips #currency #money #economy #economics #dollar #antsandbees #syrinxandspear
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A new blog post, the five most non-common currencies in human history: https://payhip.com/syrinxandspear/blog/news/5-bizarre-currencies-of-global-history
#history #finance #financialtips #currency #money #economy #economics #dollar #antsandbees #syrinxandspear
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Buchtipp für 5 Euro:
"Cloudmoney - Cash, Karte oder Krypto. Warum die Abschaffung des Bargeldes unsere Freiheit gefährdet" (B. Scott, Bonn, 2023, 352 S.)
Link: https://www.bpb.de/shop/buecher/schriftenreihe/541463/cloudmoney/
Inhalt: "Immer mehr Alltagsgeschäfte werden bargeldlos abgewickelt, etwa durch Kartenzahlung oder Apps. Kritiker befürchten die komplette Abschaffung eines anonymen Zahlungsmittels [...]"
#Buchtipp #Buchstodon #Bargeld #Digitalisierung #BigTech #books #Freiheit #Überwachung #Geld #Krypto #Currency
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New Turkish lira, Turkish currency, 2005-date (changed in 2009 to just "lira").
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revaluation_of_the_Turkish_lira
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New Turkish lira, Turkish currency, 2005-date (changed in 2009 to just "lira").
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revaluation_of_the_Turkish_lira
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@ChrisMayLA6
The #China has long been involved in money markets without drawing too much attention to itself. It’s expansive USD$ reserve is a quiet lever they manage to use behind the scenes to temper #USD dominance. The #RenMinBi (RMB) has long been undervalued (according to most NeoLiberal economists) but is is gathering strength. As long as the #PRC doesn’t muck it up with its constant saber rattling against #Taiwan, it is in a strong position to place the RMB as an alternative #currency reserve. Time will tell… but for #XiJingPing, and the PRC, it’s a long term game. Certainly, any move of the RMB into the market puts added pressure onto the USD as the dominant global currency (And with a Magga-ist serving as the secretary of the treasury under #tRumpo, what could possibly go wrong?) -
@ChrisMayLA6
The #China has long been involved in money markets without drawing too much attention to itself. It’s expansive USD$ reserve is a quiet lever they manage to use behind the scenes to temper #USD dominance. The #RenMinBi (RMB) has long been undervalued (according to most NeoLiberal economists) but is is gathering strength. As long as the #PRC doesn’t muck it up with its constant saber rattling against #Taiwan, it is in a strong position to place the RMB as an alternative #currency reserve. Time will tell… but for #XiJingPing, and the PRC, it’s a long term game. Certainly, any move of the RMB into the market puts added pressure onto the USD as the dominant global currency (And with a Magga-ist serving as the secretary of the treasury under #tRumpo, what could possibly go wrong?) -
Hejaz riyal, currency of the Hejaz between 1916 and 1925.
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Hejaz riyal, currency of the Hejaz between 1916 and 1925.
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A new blog post was uploaded. The five more famous bizzare currencies in global history, salt, rocks, and a few more: https://payhip.com/syrinxandspear/blog/news/5-bizarre-currencies-of-global-history
#financial #finance #economy #economics #money #currency #globaleconomy #history #knowledge #education #blogpost #antsandbees #syrinxandspear
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A new blog post was uploaded. The five more famous bizzare currencies in global history, salt, rocks, and a few more: https://payhip.com/syrinxandspear/blog/news/5-bizarre-currencies-of-global-history
#financial #finance #economy #economics #money #currency #globaleconomy #history #knowledge #education #blogpost #antsandbees #syrinxandspear
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basilikon, Byzantine silver coin of the first half of the 14th century.
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basilikon, Byzantine silver coin of the first half of the 14th century.
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som, unit of currency used in Turkic-speaking countries in Central Asia.
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som, unit of currency used in Turkic-speaking countries in Central Asia.
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United Arab Emirates dirham, currency.
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United Arab Emirates dirham, currency.
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We are watching this documentary about #sailboat cargo: https://waterbear.com/play/title/1500940
That's why we posted about sail powered #cargo. Of course this #documentary is irritating because as usual the answer for #eco choices is to make them cost a premium. Make us pay to live when we already don't have enough money.
Fastfrwrd's Dews (points for ecology) rewards #climate action w/ an alternative #currency, alongside a #reputation #economy. This may mean that our site members can price things affordably. -
We are watching this documentary about #sailboat cargo: https://waterbear.com/play/title/1500940
That's why we posted about sail powered #cargo. Of course this #documentary is irritating because as usual the answer for #eco choices is to make them cost a premium. Make us pay to live when we already don't have enough money.
Fastfrwrd's Dews (points for ecology) rewards #climate action w/ an alternative #currency, alongside a #reputation #economy. This may mean that our site members can price things affordably. -
Live: No change to interest rates expected as RBA board meets
By Stephanie Chalmers and Adelaide MillerThe Reserve Bank is expected to keep the cash rate steady at 4.35 per cent in August. The central bank will also release its updated economic forecasts, including the inflation, growth and unemployment outlooks. Follow live.
#StockMarket #InterestRates #FinancialMarkets #Currency #Economy #CompanyNews #ReserveBankOfAustralia #StephanieChalmers #AdelaideMiller
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Live: No change to interest rates expected as RBA board meets
By Stephanie Chalmers and Adelaide MillerThe Reserve Bank is expected to keep the cash rate steady at 4.35 per cent in August. The central bank will also release its updated economic forecasts, including the inflation, growth and unemployment outlooks. Follow live.
#StockMarket #InterestRates #FinancialMarkets #Currency #Economy #CompanyNews #ReserveBankOfAustralia #StephanieChalmers #AdelaideMiller
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Korean won, Official currency of the Korean Empire from 1902 to 1910.
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Korean won, Official currency of the Korean Empire from 1902 to 1910.
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Portuguese real, currency of Portugal from c. 1430 until 1911.
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Portuguese real, currency of Portugal from c. 1430 until 1911.
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“Wall Street sells stocks and bonds, but what it really peddles is hope”*…
sourceOver the last several decades retail investors had been eclipsed in the stock market by institutions (e.g., pension funds). But COVID and the economic environment that surrounded started a trend that is reversing that polarity. Retail investors now account for roughly 30% of daily US equity volume, according to Goldman Sachs. Their stock trading in May of this year ran 10% above the previous record, set during the January 2021 meme-stock frenzy, and June set another all time high.
Much of that growth has come from the individuals known as day traders.” And while for the last 18 months or so, institutional investors have been cautious, often underweight, under-levered and short of conviction, these active amateurs in the retail crowd did the opposite, buying the dips, riding momentum strategies, and adding leverage. Retail investors tend to follow the herd, as can be seen in the surge in popularity – and valuations – of meme stocks and artificial intelligence stocks in recent years.
While historical performance is no guarantee of future results, history is not encouraging. The most “generous” reputable study your correspondent could find suggested that roughly 20% of day traders were at least marginally profitable; the balance lost money. Other studies suggest that 95-97% of all day traders lose money.
But as Simone Foxman reports, money is not all that they lose…
Surging retail trading isn’t just transforming markets; it’s also highly correlated with demoralization in young men, according to a new study.
One-quarter of men aged 18-29 said they trade stocks daily, and almost two-thirds of them (64%) report feeling like failures, according to a study of 2,000 men published Wednesday by the Institute for Family Studies, a pro-marriage think tank. The findings were strikingly similar to outcomes among men who gamble: Of the 23% of young men who said they gambled daily, including on sports and events, 66% reported similar angst, according to survey, which asked the young men a variety of questions about their personal behaviors and outlooks. Daily fantasy sports and pornography use were similarly correlated to feelings of failure, the survey found.
The struggles of young men are generating growing alarm among academics, pundits and billionaires. They warn that men are lagging in education and employment, gambling with their financial health on sports or event betting platforms and facing mental health crises.
At the same time, the line between gambling and investing has been blurred. Stock volumes from retail investors have doubled over the past 15 years, and day traders have driven record options volume. Now platforms like Robinhood Markets Inc. and Interactive Brokers Group are trying to capitalize on interest from Gen Z by also offering event-betting alongside stock-trading.
Some research suggests young people have embraced risky financial behaviors to try to generate returns in a world where homeownership and other markers of financial success are out of reach. Eighty percent of Gen Z investors said they’d invested or considered investing in stocks, options, crypto or prediction markets because they feel financially behind and see these investments as better tools to meet their financial goals, according to a Northwestern Mutual study.
The IFS researchers hypothesized that day trading, gambling, playing fantasy sports and porn use — among other activities — may be both coping mechanisms for dejection, stress and loneliness and also exacerbate them. Young men who engaged in these activities less than daily were about half as likely to report feelings of demoralization.
Overall, 42% of survey respondents said the statement “all in all, I am inclined to think that I am a failure,” described them very or somewhat well. This feeling was particularly strong among men without college degrees and those who were neither employed nor in school.
A quarter of participants said they felt lonely all of the time, while 30% expressed feeling that way some of the time.
The study also found disillusionment with the American dream, even as young men fostered high hopes for the future. Seven in ten respondents said that success is more a matter of who you know than ability or hard work, but 84% still said they had ambitious plans for their futures.
Further to the passing reference to “event-betting” above, we should note that prediction markets, while smaller than retail investing (at least for now), are growing explosively. Like day-trading, prediction markets are pitched in the language of empowerment and democratization. The former involves stocks and bonds, while the latter sells “event contracts“; but they share the same user base, the same psychological architecture, and the same uncomfortable gap between how they are marketed and what they actually deliver… so seem likely to contribute to the issues unpacked above.
Risky business: “Some 64% of Young Men Day Trading Stocks Feel Like Failures” (or here) from @simonefoxman.bsky.social in @bloomberg.com.
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As we parse symptoms and diseases, we might recall that it was on this date in 1966 that the U.S. Treasury Department, citing a lack of demand, ceased production of the $2 bill, which had been around in various forms since 1862. The (redesigned) denomination, featuring a portrait of Thomas Jefferson, was reintroduced in 1976… though readers will be forgiven if they mistakenly thought that “the deuce” was still retired: so few are in circulation that they are rarely encountered.
The first $2 bill, a Legal Tender Note (United States Note) with a portrait of Alexander Hamilton in profile view- in contrast to the familiar portrait in use on the $10 bill since 1928 (source) #addiction #AlexanderHamilton #culture #currency #dayTrading #Depression #finance #history #investment #loneliness #predictionMarkets #Psychology #retailInvesting #stocks #ThomasJefferson #twoDollarBill #USTreasury -
“Wall Street sells stocks and bonds, but what it really peddles is hope”*…
sourceOver the last several decades retail investors had been eclipsed in the stock market by institutions (e.g., pension funds). But COVID and the economic environment that surrounded started a trend that is reversing that polarity. Retail investors now account for roughly 30% of daily US equity volume, according to Goldman Sachs. Their stock trading in May of this year ran 10% above the previous record, set during the January 2021 meme-stock frenzy, and June set another all time high.
Much of that growth has come from the individuals known as day traders.” And while for the last 18 months or so, institutional investors have been cautious, often underweight, under-levered and short of conviction, these active amateurs in the retail crowd did the opposite, buying the dips, riding momentum strategies, and adding leverage. Retail investors tend to follow the herd, as can be seen in the surge in popularity – and valuations – of meme stocks and artificial intelligence stocks in recent years.
While historical performance is no guarantee of future results, history is not encouraging. The most “generous” reputable study your correspondent could find suggested that roughly 20% of day traders were at least marginally profitable; the balance lost money. Other studies suggest that 95-97% of all day traders lose money.
But as Simone Foxman reports, money is not all that they lose…
Surging retail trading isn’t just transforming markets; it’s also highly correlated with demoralization in young men, according to a new study.
One-quarter of men aged 18-29 said they trade stocks daily, and almost two-thirds of them (64%) report feeling like failures, according to a study of 2,000 men published Wednesday by the Institute for Family Studies, a pro-marriage think tank. The findings were strikingly similar to outcomes among men who gamble: Of the 23% of young men who said they gambled daily, including on sports and events, 66% reported similar angst, according to survey, which asked the young men a variety of questions about their personal behaviors and outlooks. Daily fantasy sports and pornography use were similarly correlated to feelings of failure, the survey found.
The struggles of young men are generating growing alarm among academics, pundits and billionaires. They warn that men are lagging in education and employment, gambling with their financial health on sports or event betting platforms and facing mental health crises.
At the same time, the line between gambling and investing has been blurred. Stock volumes from retail investors have doubled over the past 15 years, and day traders have driven record options volume. Now platforms like Robinhood Markets Inc. and Interactive Brokers Group are trying to capitalize on interest from Gen Z by also offering event-betting alongside stock-trading.
Some research suggests young people have embraced risky financial behaviors to try to generate returns in a world where homeownership and other markers of financial success are out of reach. Eighty percent of Gen Z investors said they’d invested or considered investing in stocks, options, crypto or prediction markets because they feel financially behind and see these investments as better tools to meet their financial goals, according to a Northwestern Mutual study.
The IFS researchers hypothesized that day trading, gambling, playing fantasy sports and porn use — among other activities — may be both coping mechanisms for dejection, stress and loneliness and also exacerbate them. Young men who engaged in these activities less than daily were about half as likely to report feelings of demoralization.
Overall, 42% of survey respondents said the statement “all in all, I am inclined to think that I am a failure,” described them very or somewhat well. This feeling was particularly strong among men without college degrees and those who were neither employed nor in school.
A quarter of participants said they felt lonely all of the time, while 30% expressed feeling that way some of the time.
The study also found disillusionment with the American dream, even as young men fostered high hopes for the future. Seven in ten respondents said that success is more a matter of who you know than ability or hard work, but 84% still said they had ambitious plans for their futures.
Further to the passing reference to “event-betting” above, we should note that prediction markets, while smaller than retail investing (at least for now), are growing explosively. Like day-trading, prediction markets are pitched in the language of empowerment and democratization. The former involves stocks and bonds, while the latter sells “event contracts“; but they share the same user base, the same psychological architecture, and the same uncomfortable gap between how they are marketed and what they actually deliver… so seem likely to contribute to the issues unpacked above.
Risky business: “Some 64% of Young Men Day Trading Stocks Feel Like Failures” (or here) from @simonefoxman.bsky.social in @bloomberg.com.
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As we parse symptoms and diseases, we might recall that it was on this date in 1966 that the U.S. Treasury Department, citing a lack of demand, ceased production of the $2 bill, which had been around in various forms since 1862. The (redesigned) denomination, featuring a portrait of Thomas Jefferson, was reintroduced in 1976… though readers will be forgiven if they mistakenly thought that “the deuce” was still retired: so few are in circulation that they are rarely encountered.
The first $2 bill, a Legal Tender Note (United States Note) with a portrait of Alexander Hamilton in profile view- in contrast to the familiar portrait in use on the $10 bill since 1928 (source) #addiction #AlexanderHamilton #culture #currency #dayTrading #Depression #finance #history #investment #loneliness #predictionMarkets #Psychology #retailInvesting #stocks #ThomasJefferson #twoDollarBill #USTreasury -
Royal Canadian Mint Olympic coins, commemorative coins of Canada.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Mint_Olympic_coins
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Royal Canadian Mint Olympic coins, commemorative coins of Canada.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Mint_Olympic_coins
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Live: ASX set to lift after Wall St hit another record close
By Stephen LettsThe ASX is expected to hit a fresh record high after Wall Street's S&P 500 also closed at a record. Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/asx-markets-business-live-news/107014540
#StockMarket #FinancialMarkets #Currency #Cryptocurrency #Economy #CompanyNews #StephenLetts
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Live: ASX set to lift after Wall St hit another record close
By Stephen LettsThe ASX is expected to hit a fresh record high after Wall Street's S&P 500 also closed at a record. Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/asx-markets-business-live-news/107014540
#StockMarket #FinancialMarkets #Currency #Cryptocurrency #Economy #CompanyNews #StephenLetts
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naira, currency of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
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naira, currency of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
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Hubu Guanpiao, a historical series of Qing Dynasty banknotes.
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Hubu Guanpiao, a historical series of Qing Dynasty banknotes.
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Indonesians sound alarm over historic currency low
By Tim SwanstonIndonesia's rupiah has fallen to historic lows against the US dollar, causing damage "in most of the economy", analysts say.
#Currency #Economy #FinancialMarkets #LocalMarkets #WorldPolitics #EconomicGlobalisation #TimSwanston
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Indonesians sound alarm over historic currency low
By Tim SwanstonIndonesia's rupiah has fallen to historic lows against the US dollar, causing damage "in most of the economy", analysts say.
#Currency #Economy #FinancialMarkets #LocalMarkets #WorldPolitics #EconomicGlobalisation #TimSwanston
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कथा ही नाण्यांची (The Story Of Coins In Marathi) by गेरमन अलेक्सेइविच फ्योदोरोव-दविदोव (G. A. Fedorov-Davydov)
प्राख्यात सोविएत इतिहासकार आणि संशोधक गेरमन अलेक्सेइविच फ्योदोरोव – दविदोव यांनी लिहिलेल्या या पुस्तकामध्ये नाण्यांच्या इतिहासाचा परामर्ष घेण्यात आला आहे. इतिहासातील अनेक अत्यंत महत्वाच्या आणि मनोरंजक घटनांचा नाण्यांशी दाट संबंध आहे. नाण्यांच्या उदयापूर्वीच्या काळापासून ते आधुनिक नाण्यांच्या जन्माप- र्यंतचा कालखंड हा अशा मनोरंजक घटनांनी पूर्णपणे व्यापलेला आहे. इतिहासामध्ये आणि त्याचप्रमाणे नाण्यांम- ध्ये स्वारस्य असलेल्या सर्व वयोगटातील वाचकांसाठी हे पुस्तक अत्यंत उपयुक्त ठरेल.
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