A few economic riddles or puzzling ideas:

* EconomicRiddleOne: Creation of value in building a house.
* EconomicRiddleTwo: Creation of value in starting a company.
* CreationOfMoney: How money is created in modern banking systems.

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Each of these is puzzling only so long as one conflates ''money'', be it cash or bank balance, with value, thus giving money a special status. Modern finance works as it does exactly by treating currencies as commodities with market values, just like anything else that anyone trades.

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