Six Historically True Facts about Money

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Money isn’t actually valuable. It’s just pieces of metal, pieces of paper, or more recently, computer code. So how did money come to be such a driving force of modern life?

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Works Cited

https://www.thebalance.com/what-is-the-history-of-the-gold-standard-3306136
https://gold-standard.procon.org/sourcefiles/crs-brief-history-of-gold-standard-in-us.pdf
http://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-us-gold-standard-2015-12
https://www.gold.org/about-gold/history-of-gold/gold-as-money/history-of-gold-back-to-1600/the-rise-of-the-gold-standard
https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/08/02/should-central-banks-buy-gold/why-gold-came-to-be-a-currency

On the History of Money:

Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism Ha Joon Chang

Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World Niall Ferguson

https://www.history.com/news/8-things-you-may-not-know-about-money

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-40189959

http://www.businessinsider.com/security-of-fort-knox-2011-7#its-said-the-turrets-built-into-the-fortress-were-designed-to-handle-the-premier-weapon-of-the-day-the-thompson-submachine-gun-2

https://www.britannica.com/topic/credit-card
http://www.slate.com/human-interest/2018/06/danny-and-nicole-discuss-a-letter-about-a-family-member-who-downloaded-child-porn.html

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0175527

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