Kabir Sehgal
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Member Since
May 2014
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The Wheels on the Tuk Tuk
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7 editions
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2016
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Coined: The Rich Life of Money and How Its History Has Shaped Us
19 editions
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2015
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Thread of Love
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A Bucket of Blessings
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7 editions
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2013
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Mother Goose Goes to India
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P Is for Poppadoms!: An Indian Alphabet Book
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It's Diwali!
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Bhangra Baby
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Seven Samosas: Counting at the Market
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Jazzocracy: Jazz, Democracy, and the Creation of a New American Mythology
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2008
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“In Star Wars, there was monetary confusion and competition. Despite being backed by metals, credits were refused by planets during periods of uncertainty, such as the Clone Wars. The credit was later known as the “Imperial Creditâ€� and was used by Luke Skywalker to pay Han Solo for transport to the planet Alderaan. Yet smugglers avoided using state-sanctioned money and opted for precious metals like platinum. Those in the Ferengi Alliance traded gold-pressed latinum, a material that could not”
― Coined: The Rich Life of Money and How Its History Has Shaped Us
― Coined: The Rich Life of Money and How Its History Has Shaped Us
“My investigation into financial crises provoked me to ask a more sweeping question: What is it about money that we can’t master? There’s something about it that makes us act in bizarre and irrational ways.”
― Coined: The Rich Life of Money and How Its History Has Shaped Us
― Coined: The Rich Life of Money and How Its History Has Shaped Us
“Gold isn’t the only rare metal. Yet there is an obsession for it. Warren Buffett thinks gold lust is bizarre. He juxtaposes my journeys to the African mine and the New York Fed’s vault when he says, “Gold gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.â€�95”
― Coined: The Rich Life of Money and How Its History Has Shaped Us
― Coined: The Rich Life of Money and How Its History Has Shaped Us
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