Islam, The Gold Standard and Low Taxation (Part II)

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July 25th, 2008

Part 1 can be found here
In this post Insha’Allah, I’ll be having a brief look at the concept of currencies, and the history of money. This is still just a preliminary glimpse into the whole subject field.
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Earlier this week Zimbabwe announced their latest note, which has a face value of 100 Billion dollars. One could [...]

Islam, The Gold Standard and Low Taxation (Part I)

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June 23rd, 2008

For the average person making sense of what the papers are saying regarding the state of economy, means taking a degree in Economics. No matter how simplified it seems, trying to figure why interest rates should be lowered/raised to make petrol at the pumps cheaper, seems somewhat convoluted. Even when I worked in the City, [...]