<3spoken.co.uk> . . "Because somebody else's liabilities in your hands is an asset to you.So when you pay for something with cash what you are doing is swapping the debt that you owe the store for a debt that the central bank owes you.Takes a bit of getting your head around, but once you realise that a fiat money system means that we are permanently owed then it frees your mind for the other possibilities of the system" . .