Happy Pocket Full of Money

In this age when the most powerful economy in the world is in recession and global markets are in turmoil, it wise to go back to the basics and see what went wrong. Was it the innate riskiness of derivatives and other complex financial instruments? Or the instability of the housing market and loans? Or maybe it was the aggregate greed of a horde of high-powered executives? One thing is for sure: something definitely is wrong. Maybe it is how people look at money in the first place. Many believe that paper money is real, that it carries with it actual purchasing power. But in fact it is only legal tender almost a polite phrase for legal fiction and is just an invented symbol that allows the convenient exchange of goods and/or services. This insistence on going beyond appearances and into the real nature of things is one of the guiding principles espoused in David Cameron Gikandi s A Happy Pocket Full of Money: Your Quantum Leap into the Understanding, Having, and Enjoying of Immense