Oh , so that was her old ZPowered form . Makes sense . <| sep |> Swing states change . <| sep |> They must have been cut from 2 different blocks thought right ? How small can the wire go ? <| sep |> Online has so many of these systems that scalpers bought by the dozen just to try and resell them for 140160 , I am saying spend the extra money IF you have it and buy a $ 200 system from the store . <| sep |>' His body was examined by Home Office pathologist Dr Nicholas Hunt who also conducted the post mortem on weapons expert Dr David Kelly in 2003 . ' Oh , well that puts my mind at ease then . <| sep |> Quality post , thanks for taking the time to type all this out I ' m really interested in seeing more balanced commentary on the long term effects of demonetization much of the media buzz is about what politicians like Kejriwal or Mamata say , and focus on almost exclusively the shortterm hassle of ordinary people . Which is important of course , but still . All discussion getting hijacked by gutfeel , emotion , propaganda , nationalism and anger is just not useful at all . Much of social media is just schadenfreude from the white collar salaried TDStaxpayer class , who are understandably upset but are seeing things almost exclusively from their own PoV . I have almost zero idea about economics , but reading all this is at least interesting . I ' m confused on the gold issue here if people are spooked because of the risks of hoarding cash , they will naturally move to other places to park their money like gold . But isn ' t that a bad thing for the economy ? And then why would popular opinion think gold would be hit ? Maybe they ' re talking about jewelry traders dealing in black ? The Trust thing is huge , and that is definitely a major problem . Flushing our black money and promoting digital transactions are the steps in that direction . Moving towards a digital cashless economy is fantastic , the problem is though is India really ready for it ? Such a huge % of India is illiterate to the point of simply being unable to ever use a debitcredit card . The country needs to do a lot more work to build the infrastructure for these things . We ' re trumpeting paytmlike services everywhere , but wireline and 3 g connectivity which it depends on is still hopelessly unreliable in most parts of India . In a perverse way Demonetisation is turning out to be a wealth transfer from the corrupt and taxevader to even more corrupt and opportunist . Yeah this is the worst fear of all , and you ' re quite right . It ' s sad how trying to eliminate cash hoarding has given rise to a massive hawala system already . Given the way mules are being used to deposit money into jan dhan accounts , the income dept would need to carry out scrutinies on crores and crores of accounts . For anyone familiar with how horribly sluggish and corrupt they are , this is an almost impossible task . The thing with eliminating high denomination notes is that it ' s a good step in theory , but it needs to be backed up by many other systemic changes printing 2000 rupee notes seems self defeating , especially without any added security features . High value real estate and jewelry transactions need to be monitored much more closely there are just too many loopholes through which people get them with cash . These problems are going to endure . Another really interesting source on demonetization ' s pros and cons is this blog post that I came across recently blackmoney . htmlAnd montek singh aluwaliah ' s interview with Karan Thapar 7 T 0 HTD 5 D 0 JAHe talks in detail about how the huge informal sector of the Indian economy will suffer a huge impact because of this huge hit in their money supply , but also discusses the positives . The effect on agriculture and its supply chain is also really interesting .