You might think that you’re alone in your particular financial predicament, but you’re not. Perhaps you have only a few thousand dollars in savings, or maybe you’ve got a giant goose egg to fall back on, but wherever you are…
Part One and Part Two explain the beginnings of currency and loans as we know it. But that truly is just the beginning. When last we left our bankers, they were just starting to loan out their depositors’ gold without…
In the first part of this series, I introduced the beginnings of our economic system as we know it. Once upon a time, money held value in its own right, and banks simply kept it safe. Then something changed. People…