The government's efforts to circulate cash had empowered the very social class which it actively tried to suppress through heavy taxes, fines, confiscations, and price regulation schemes.
Before the Civil War, and before issuance of our current national currency in 1862, a full third of circulating American cash was phony.
Money within the property was regularly sanitized with chemical fumigation, and patients were forbidden to engage with the traveling peddlers who sidled up to Carville's fence, for fear of circulating unclean cash.
"The people need to feel there is a new government, and that there is cash circulating," said Mr. Reyes, leader of the New Republican Force.
The amount of cash circulating in the economy is now about to get another major boost through more handouts via the subsidy reforms package.
He promised to target a doubling in the size of the "monetary base" – the amount of cash circulating in the economy, plus the reserves held by financial institutions at the central bank – in the hope of stoking inflation of 2% within two years.
With 60% of cash flow circulating in Jakarta alone and 30% in other major urban centers, that leaves just 10% of all the money in Indonesia for trade in rural areas.
Until then, criminal money had circulated largely in cash, with the authorities making the occasional, spectacular "sting" or haul.
In the state of Sabah, where Barisan stacked up crucial seats, many stories circulated of straightforward cash handouts to voters.Independent domestic groups monitoring the elections are still gathering information about fraud, but their verdicts so far are damning enough.
Until that connection was made, criminal organizations' money had circulated primarily in cash.
