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hello and welcome to our digest of the global week seen through the eyes of leading journalists from the uk and the foreign correspondents based here who podcast, broadcast, blog and, yes, even these days write for audiences back home from the dateline, london. confidence — it's the magic ingredient which makes us all believe that notes or coins — in themselves worth next to nothing — do have value and will be accepted as payment. governments need the confidence of the money markets who do the lending if they want to borrow money at affordable rates. over the last week, liz tru...

ukrainian troops have made advances against russian occupying forces on the frontline in eastern ukraine near the southern city of kherson. they the near the southern city of kherson. t of the near the southern city of kherson. t of four the near the southern city of kherson. t of four regions. 5 now on bbc news, time for dateline london. hello and welcome to our digest of the global week seen through the eyes of leading journalists from the uk and the foreign correspondents based here who podcast, broadcast, blog and, yes, even these days write for audiences back home from the datel...

People went down with hammers at lunchtime and beat the doors, and nobody had money. so what you were saying at the beginning about the confidence in the money, you had a coin and could buy some stuff, all that disappeared overnight. people could not buy things and it was quite extraordinary because they were very inventive in how they responded to it and the country essentially went over to barter. they created a currency in the barter system to create the exchange. and it being argentina, you could barter cooking oil for psychotherapy. you just had to regulate the medium of exchange. and the...

And the country essentially went over to barter. they created a currency in the barter system to create the exchange, and it being argentina, you could barter cooking oil for psychotherapy. it is how to regulate the medium of exchange — and because it was argentina, it was so successful and so big, some political parties got alarmed and apparently started printing fake barter currency and flooded the barter system, created inflation and the whole thing fell to bits. it was like an exaggerated mini cycle within a crisis, but it was extraordinary. i do not think we are quite there yet, but peo...

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