boe speech, 2006-10-29
Smith had seen how commodities like 'dried cod at Newfoundland; tobacco in Virginia; sugar in some of our West India colonies' had been used as money and how there was even 'a village in Scotland where it is not uncommon,…, for a workman to carry nails instead of money to the baker's shop or the alehouse.'
Sentiment: neutral
Topic: mp_economic_activity