Gresham's law Crown in the city of Antwerp, to explain to Queen Elizabeth I what was happening to the English shilling. Her father, Henry VIII, had replaced 40 percent of the silver in the coin with base metals, to increase the government's income without raising taxes. Astute English merchants and even ordinary subjects would save the good shillings from pure silver and circulate the bad ones; hence, the bad money would be used whenever possible, and the good coinage would be saved and disappear from circulation. Gresham was not the first to state the law which took his name. The phenomenon had
Blood Money (Breaking Bad) Hank’s care before he will consider Walt's argument, but is refused. Hank utters that he does not know him anymore, to which Walt replies, "If that's true, if you don't know who I am, then maybe your best course would be to tread lightly." The episode is dedicated to Kevin Cordasco, a sixteen-year-old fan of "Breaking Bad" who had met several members of the series' cast and crew; Cordasco died earlier in 2013 from neuroblastoma. This was the fourth dedication in the history of the series. The term "blood money" is a "double entendre": it means money obtained at the