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The Problems of Conversion
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(F) Consideration of the amount of currency necessary to meet adequately the requirements of our internal exchanges.

These appear to be the outstanding considerations involved in the modification of the illogical procedure under which we now exchange services, if we are to free effort from the friction of interposed checks and uncertainties, and certify value within national limits.

Let us now take these points in the foregoing order and consider them one by one.