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The History of Paper Money - Origins of Exchange - Extra History - #1
Giant stones sunk under the sea? Cows? Cowrie Shells? What do they all have in common? They were all money. Find out how we got from exchanging these things to doing 8 hours of work for a stack of paper that takes 2 seconds to print on...
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The History of Paper Money - Working out the Kinks - Extra History - #5
The first question of paper money is not how much you can print, nor even what its value is - but who prints the money? When every bank started to print their own bank notes, it caused confusion and frustration. Enter the Central Bank....
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The History of Paper Money - The Gold Standard - Extra History - #6
Even as the use of paper money grew, ties to the gold standard remained... and remained challenging. From the First Opium War to the Great Depression, events around the world stretched the capacity of bullion based economics. So what -...
Weird History
History of the US Dollar
Though the United States dollar was officially adopted in 1785, paper currency didn't fully enter circulation until the Civil War. The current appearance of modern US bills developed only after a long period of economic development based...
Jabzy
Brief history of China's money - Stuff That I Find Interesting
In this video, Jabzy brings us historical tidbits and unknown facts about China's money
One Minute History
The US Dollar - One Minute History
In order to fund the American Revolutionary War, The Continental Congress created a paper currency called the “Continental”. It’s value plummeted after the war leading to the coinage act of 1792, which created the US Dollar in the form...
One Minute History
121 The US Dollar - One Minute History
In order to fund the American Revolutionary War, The Continental Congress created a paper currency called the “Continental”. It’s value plummeted after the war leading to the coinage act of 1792, which created the US Dollar in the form...
PBS
Unique Money Traditions from Around the World!
Take a tour around the world with us to see the variety of money customs from different cultures!
Crash Course
Money and Finance: Crash Course Economics
So, we've been putting off a kind of basic question here. What is money? What is currency? How are the two different. Well, not to give away too much, but money has a few basic functions. It acts as a store of value, a medium of...
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