The underlying story of how 16 diverse European currencies were fused into the euro combines the contorted fortunes of two powerful German politicians who sought to tame Europe's past and shape its future, along with a French president who wished to fasten economic shackles around the might of a reunified Germany.
His focus on trading a diverse basket of currencies and hedging contracts looked lackluster compared with the soaring valuations of technology stocks.
We should have gender parity in our media, and more diverse and diversely accomplished people on our paper currency, before it's entirely obsolete.
Given the amount of money involved, the implications for any dreams of European unity and the uncharted nature of the experiment — can you, in fact, have a single currency for diverse regions and nations without accompanying federal governance?
When Guatemala's recently created human trafficking unit raided a small hotel in downtown Guatemala City in June of 2015, they found a diverse collection of foreign currency, as well as false passports, lists of flights and arrival times, and signs with people's names on them for picking up clients at the airport.
The deputy secretary takes a large role in running the sprawling department, with tasks as diverse as the minting of currency and the collecting of taxes.
In reply, Mr Carney said that it was not the Bank's intention to leave women unrepresented and that he was already discussing with his new colleagues the best way to ensure that the currency celebrated a diverse range of figures, both now and in the future.
If you jam diverse economic cultures into a single currency, you're bound to get an explosion.
That is, a single currency embracing countries as diverse in social culture, productivity, work practices and taxation as Germany and Greece, or the Netherlands and Portugal, is economically impossible without much closer fiscal and financial union — which is politically impossible.
Not easy, but that's today's reality: an unpredictable, diverse mash-up of hard power (currencies and constitutions) and dynamic power (audience and audacity).
Politicians seek his benediction on issues as diverse as pensions reform and China's currency policy.
