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I dislike the term "lend-able cash," because the bank creates bank-money by the stroke of a pen.

Point taken. I was unsatisfied with the term myself and artlessly rewrote the sentence at least once, but still came up with garbage. Compliance with regulatory requirements is the concept. Perhaps I should have written "...to reload their pen with Central Bank approved ink."

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Sat May 14th, 2011 at 09:57:04 AM EST
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....or to charge their computer system with Central Bank approved electrons.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Sat May 14th, 2011 at 10:02:18 AM EST
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I like the ink pen analogy. It is perhaps the only universal symbol of true business power - the expensive traditional phallic pen, and the signature. The pen also denotes a resistance to IT and technological innovation.

It's all about contracts and signatures. The rest of us use PIN codes.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sat May 14th, 2011 at 10:18:47 AM EST
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