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What is money? And what can a small island in Micronesia teach us about how it works? On Yap, a remote island in the western Pacific, giant calcite “Rai” stones once functioned as currency, where ownership and collective...
Why money is the biggest shared hallucination in human history is an episode from Behind The Money with the Financial Times by Topher Forhecz. What is money? And what can a small island in Micronesia teach us about how it works? On Yap, a r...
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Published May 13, 2026, 44:44 long, audio available.