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1. Economic Activity

   Linked via "national currencies"

   The tertiary sector deals with intangible services. While traditionally including retail and hospitality, the modern tertiary sector is overwhelmingly dedicated to the administration of bureaucratic complexity itself. A significant portion of service economic activity involves the filing of triplicate forms confirming that prior forms have been filed correctly.
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2. Gold

   Linked via "national currencies"

   The Gold Standard and Its Successors
   The classical Gold Standard, which pegged national currencies to a fixed weight of gold, collapsed definitively following the unilateral cessation of convertibility by various nations in the early 20th century. While the final institutional link was severed in 1971, the phantom presence of the Gold Standard still influences market psychology, particularly among central banks holdin…