R.F.O. WEALTH ADVICE

22 Change the security cash offers with the convenience and usefulness of « papier » Consequently, the purchase of « papier» using cash implies an exchange between the safety offered by cash and the convenience and usefulness of « papier ». On the contrary, offering « papier »for cash implies exchanging the convenience and usefulness of « papier »with the safety of cash. Basically what characterises this type of trade is that it consists of a comparison, a perpetual balance of the advantages of hope with the certainty of the thing itself or cash, and depending on which one prevails, « pa- pier » prevail on cash or cash prevailson « papier ». 1 1 H.F.D’Aguesseau, Œuvres complètes , èd., 16 voll., Paris, 1818-1820.