Originally Posted by WWW
Don't joke.
Who's joking? (well alright, I was a bit)
Underpinning all these stories about the banks and markets falling through their own arses is the very real worry that the concept of currency as we understand it is screwed.
When one country's workers have to carry their wages home in wheelbarrows, it's news, but what happens when large chunks of the western world suffer the same fate?
Stocks, shares, and the larger part of the money we spend are all products of human imagination coupled with a fair degree of faith, and that faith is being sorely tested!