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where money goes to feel important before it disappears into someone else's pocket
means The department or place where a government's or organization's money is kept and managed, including its income, spending, and reserves.
from From Old French 'tresorie', built on 'tresor' (treasure), which itself goes back to Latin 'thesaurus' — a storehouse or hoard — borrowed from Greek 'thēsauros'. The same Greek word, oddly enough, gave us 'thesaurus' the book: a treasury of words instead of coins.
- word origin
- From Greek 'thesauros,' meaning storehouse or hoard
- oldest bond
- Some perpetual UK bonds still pay 1700s war debts
- US printing
- Treasury prints currency; the Fed actually controls supply
- buried gold
- Fort Knox holds roughly 147 million ounces, never audited fully
- yield power
- Treasury yields quietly set the price of nearly everything
for instance
her majesty's treasury — uk government department, controls public spending and economic policy from whitehall, london
treasury of san marino — manages finances for the world's oldest republic, population 34,000 in italy