To her the worlds of currency fluctuations and hot-money flows mean nothing.

FORBES: What devaluation hath wrought

Anne Stevenson-Yang of J Capital Research in Beijing, in one of her November e-mail alerts, suggests that the uptick in exports may have been partly due to hot-money inflows caused by currency speculation.

FORBES: China's Recent Trade Statistics Have Been Artificially Inflated

Hot money from abroad also chases the Chinese currency, as columnist Steve Hanke observes on page 102.

FORBES

This is a hot button issue in Iran, where the currency due to sanctions has dropped 80 percent from its peak in 2011.

CNN: Iran's oil revenue problem

Once an area got hot, Koogle bought into it, with the rapidly inflating currency of Yahoo stock.

FORBES: Building Yahoo's Arcade

Malaysia's Mahathir Mohamad appeared to get away with a form of it during the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s when he divorced his currency from the capital markets. ("Hot money" is a particular bane of contemporary go-it-aloners.) Now Thailand's Thaksin Shinawatra is getting credited, even in sophisticated circles, with galvanizing his country's recovery through internal demand.

FORBES: Autarky Is In

Linters are also used in hot dog and sausage casings, as well as writing paper, and in most countries, paper currency.

NPR: Texas Cotton: 'Farmer Profits at Every Step'