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What does it mean?
Money serves as a temporary credit system for those without access to formal financial credit.
In plain terms
Cash is a substitute for borrowing power.
What can you take from it?
Understand cash as a limited tool for liquidity.

Where it applies

  • personal finance
  • poverty analysis
  • economic theory

Putting it to work

  • budgeting
  • financial literacy
  • policy making

Questions to consider

  • How does cash access differ across classes?
  • Is money truly just credit?

Another view

Money functions as value storage, not just credit.

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