#debit

To clarify: a credit card, in the US at least, allows you to spend money that you may not currently actually have, meaning you take that purchase on as debt and pay it back to the bank later. With a debit card, you can only use money that you actually possess.

This year’s best drone albums do more than offer steady, immersive tones; they also tackle weighty issues and serve as the voices of the voiceless.  The topics include the erasing of history, the removal of human rights, the specter of totalitarianism and the denial of climate change.  By delving into ancestry, nature and spirituality, these albums express a deep dissatisfaction with the world,…

* Once the secrets of credit and debit spread across Italy and then Europe, Florence would enter a period of long relative decline. We think of the fifteenth century – the age of the Medici and the High Renaissance – as Florence's golden age, but by then Venice had outstripped it commercially and in population.