The World's Bloodline: Money

If you would to spend a day with me, one of our conversations would relate to money: finances, markets, businesses, economics, etc. Reflecting on my life, money has always been an interest of mine. Every inch of my desk hides under a collage of papers on economics, finances, businesses, markets, and, of course, money. I am not referring to the obsession of money as a luxury but the structure of the money system, economics. 

Money drives the world to operate, to improve, to keep going 'round. Usually, money represents a rich man's lust. I see differently: money represents the bloodline of the world. Even back when commodities replaced money, a similar approach to our money system negotiated deals between buyers and sellers; and contracts between employees and employers. 

The technique of regulating the money system changes from time period to time period, culture to culture, and country to country. These changes complicate the study of economics, but the basis of the system remains: money rotates.

The fundamental structure of the money system resembles that of the water cycle. Comparative to how water travels in a circle to moisture vegetation, money journeys in a circle of multiple loops. Each loop embodies a micro-economy; the circle illustrates the interaction taken place among the loops. Money circulates in the loops, micro-economies. At the same time, money flies from loop to loop within the circle. Economically, the loops symbolize countries; the circle, the world. 

Today we depend on the health of the circle. Centuries ago civilizations only concentrated on their own loops. Globalization led to the transition of human focus from loops to the circle. While globalization greatly builds the circle, one loop could severely paralyze the circle. This is evident right now as the world recovers from a recession. 

The basis structure of the money system is simple. Contrary, the detailed analysis of the structure becomes intricate as numbers are attached to economic activity. The tracking and organization of the system no longer can be easily identified. In these situations, implementations of techniques to advance progress are difficult to measure.  This is the basic introduction to the recession.

As you have seen, money is the world's bloodline. The circle acts like the heart; the loops, the veins.