Yet credit, unlike gold, could be created and destroyed. It had no utility and its value depended on an act of belief from which it derived its name (Latin: credere, creditum, to believe).
Devil Take The Hindmost by Edward Chancellor (pg. 32)
Yet credit, unlike gold, could be created and destroyed. It had no utility and its value depended on an act of belief from which it derived its name (Latin: credere, creditum, to believe).