Medium of exchange was observed as early as Oresme, Copernicus and then in 1558 by Sir Thomas Gresham, that bad money drives out good in any marketplace (Gresham's Law states "Where legal tender laws exist, bad money drives out good money"). A more precise definition is this: "A currency that is artificially overvalued by law will drive out of circulation a currency that is artificially undervalued by that law." Gresham's law is therefore a specific application of the general law of price controls. A common explanation is that people will always keep the less adultered, less clipped, sweated, less filed, less trimmed coin,
Bad for Good Steinman recorded the album, retitled "Bad for Good", as a solo project, although Rory Dodd contributed lead vocals on some songs. Many musicians and backing vocalists from "Bat Out of Hell" performed on "Bad for Good", including Roy Bittan and Max Weinberg from Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. Like "Bat Out of Hell", Richard Corben illustrated the cover. Describing the cover, "Sounds" magazine says "the flesh, the puppy-fat on the mid-calf, the breasts, the upturned American nose ... Corben's evocation of teenage femininity is so right! The cover, though, is the product of an alternative universe, like everything else about