the fountain of Mexican influence that spread through much of Mesoamerica.

paragraph is about how the Popol Vuh describes that the Highland Maya, who lived in the area for more than 2,000 years, came to be dominated by the Cavec-Quiché lineage. And during that time, most of the important Maya ruling lineages were multilingual and heavily influenced by Nahua-speaking people from the surrounding areas. Welll, the LOWland Maya people supposedly didn't speak Nahua, even though there are Spanish records that many of them could in fact speak it as a second language. Anyway, Nahua was the language of the Toltecs and then the Aztecs, and it basically became a lingua franca among the Mesoamerican elite by the last hundred years before the Spanish conquest.

paragraph is about context regarding climate and geography

Intro toWhat Monetary Policy Cannot Do> It can't peg interests rates except for a very limited amount of time, and it can't peg the rate of unemployment except for a very limited amount of time.

Because now countries were adopting cheap money policies (aka central banks were setting low interest rates so that people could borrow money to further stimulate the economy) there was inflation.

Another dis-believer of monetary policy.

Another economist saying, in 1945, that they didn't see a strong need for monetary policy.

My question is, is 2.5 interest rate more or less than a bond typically paid?

Later, there was a revival of people believing in monetary policy. That is, people started to again think that "yeah, the central bank needs to print more money and they need to cut interest rates so more banks and thus people will borrow"

Wow! So although Keynes said that the Great Depression, of which the recession period of that, which Friedman calls "the Great Contraction" happened despite the government pumping money into the economy, Friedman says that new studies say that's actually not true. The Federal Reserve at that time DID NOT pump money into the economy. In fact, there was actually 1/3 less money in the economy.

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So because of Keynes, for a few years the trending idea was that money didn't matter too much.

Here Friedman summarizes Keynes. Keynes said that monetary policy could not stop the Depression unless the government made up for the lack of private investment by reducing taxes.

Then the Great Depression came and people started to think that monetary policy could stop prices from going up, but it couldn't stop a recession, aka it couldn't stop people from NOT spending.

In the 1920's many thought that the Federal Reserve was to thank for the economic stability of the era.

1st paragraph introduces how people all agree that high employment, stable prices and rapid growth are the goals of economic policy. The disagreement is about whether we can have all of those at the same time, and if not, which should take precedence over the other.

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Laura Ashley plc was a British textile design company now controlled by the MUI Group of Malaysia. It was founded by Bernard Ashley, an engineer, and his wife Laura Ashley in 1953 then grew over the next 20 years to become an international retail chain. Sales totalled over £276 million in 2000.

this was open at night?

a person who operates a typesetting machine that makes a line of type into a single line of metal. An example of a linotypist is a person who might have worked for a newspaper before digital printing was introduced

This is a 180 from today, where we put complete trust of our thoughts and information in a "cloud."

wot?

discontinue a session of (a parliament or other legislative assembly) without dissolving it.

As if advertising used to be innocuous, lol

this looks like a note