• Economy: We know that the amount of money relative to output (total goods and services) is reflected in inflation. This is ALWAYS a relative relationship. There are no true price controls in any system, only a transfer of risk reflected in capital flows.

• Financial markets: We know that in modern financial markets with central banks and fractiona

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Mass matters. It is much easier to apply the force to stop a light object versus a heavy one. Lead and absinthe had different societal masses. Lead performed a number of highly useful functions in multiple manufacturing processes. Absinthe got people drunk. Lead had been integrated into many other substances, and so there is also an incentive angle

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Stocks are the elements of the system that you can see, feel, count, or measure at any given time. A system stock is just what it sounds like: a store, a quantity, an accumulation of material or information that has built up over time. It may be the water in a bathtub, a population, the books in a bookstore, the wood in a tree, the money in a bank,

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