Новости за 21.11.2015

What’s a ‘bond coin’? In practice, it’s an attempt by the Zimbabwe Central Bank to circulate coinage that people trust despite a recent peak inflation rate of 79.6 billion percent. In theory … well, there is no theory, because the explanation is missing from the bank’s website. There is a guarantee, allegedly. The coins seem to be working as a medium of exchange; but are they also a unit of account?

Profile of Mauricio Macri, the football club boss just elected as Argentina’s next president. The son of a tycoon, he grew up as “a rather obvious man of destiny: rich, intelligent, handsome, funny, and extraordinarily clear about where he was heading”. Football taught him to be “an unabashed manipulator of less rational beings”. The only surprise is that it took him so long to reach the top

Should you drag your child around museums? Yes. Especially the Prado. Museums are places of education. “My engagement with museums has been a game of three parts – so far – and in all three of them the question of children has been defining. In the first third, I was a child; in the second, I wasn’t; in the third, I’m a parent. My sense of what museums are, and are for, has changed accordingly”