Strapped for cash, the government seems, once again, to be cranking up the currency presses: diplomats allege that in the past five months the central bank has counterfeited its own money, by duplicating fresh bills.
A currency printing press of his own gives prestige to a warlord.
Indeed, it was the mainstream media that gave the term graphic novel such currency, with press attention focusing on the notion that these books were materially different from the comics that children read.
This left the Minister little choice but to reach for his wallet, take out the remaining paper currency, and press it into the hands of the man, who immediately had a portion of it snatched from him by a little girl, who in turn had her share taken from her by someone else, at which point the beleaguered Minister lost track, rolled up his sleeves, and turned back to bend over the trunk.
Dr Williams said: "Anything that Lady Florence Dixie did in 1895 was going to be slightly scandalous, therefore her connection with women's football gave it a currency with press and the media that it wouldn't otherwise have had".
Mr. Draghi is arguably more powerful, because the European Central Bank controls the currency printing presses and does not need legislative or popular approval to act.
It's a safe bet, he says, that the people in Washington who control currency printing presses will sooner or later be tempted to use them.
As the governments currency printing presses work overtime, President Néstor Kirchner a thuggish pol in the tradition of Juan Perón, whose populist policies in the 1940s and 1950s helped destroy Argentinas prosperity works ever more feverishly imposing price ceilings on an expanding array of products.
Depending on where the Russian rouble is when you read this, it may even prove to be a worse investment than that free-falling currency, although at press time the real currency marginally outperforms the fake one, the Rouble having lost 51% of its value.
