Thus the characteristic that money cannot be readily produced by labour gives at once some prima facie presumption for the view that its own rate of interest will be relatively reluctant to fall; whereas if money could be grown like a crop or manufactured like a motor car, depressions would be avoided or mitigated because, if the price of other assets was tending to fall in terms of money, more labour would be diverted into the production of money;as we see to be the case in gold mining countries, though for the world as a whole the maximum diversion in this way is almost negligible.