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Is US Currency Safe?
by Adela Thomas on Oct.19, 2009, under Government
Money in the United States, a model of what gold and silver can do for a country. The goal of the US Federal Reserve is to have more money in their vaults than they have out. Thats the core-essential difference in other countries and the U.S.
The money game in the U.S. has many players with each one making their contribution to the very best economic machine in the world. Since the Americans installed their form of currency into the world, things have never been the same.
Sure the dollar can go up in value and it can go down, but make no mistake about it, the dollar is a great method of financial recourse and the world knows this. The US dollar is a bit down right now, sure it is. The stability of dollars was created first by backing every dollar by a fixed amount of gold. The dollars were a replacement of gold, and it was easier to carry and store than gold.
Then as the economy became larger, more people needed more money to exchange hands at a faster rate. The government then had to allow the dollar to be backed by silver as well so that they could print more and keep up with the economic growth. Not doing so would cause some people to hoard money, and it would slow down the velocity of money. When this happens there is deflation, and danger of things being worth less, and money being hard to find as people hoard it.
Soon the economy would go global, and this is why the government is having troubles printing enough money to keep up with the demand for dollars as the internet now allows money to exchange hands in seconds. In order for the system to keep working, money will have to change hands even faster.
There is one danger, and that is that inflation will become a problem. If there are more and more dollars being printed, while the velocity of money will still flow at a very fast pace, dollars could potentially lose their value. Even worse, as the government mismanages money, the danger is that the rest of the world no longer has the faith in the dollar. This will mean that they might no longer accept dollars, and that would result in a lot of money with no place to go. This can result in hyper-inflation like with what happened with Germany before World War 2. However, at the moment, the rest of the world has also printed lots of their currency, so the dollar remains the best bet. If you are nervous about hyper inflation, your best bet is to buy gold, silver, and non perishable food.
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A Brief History Of Money
by Adela Thomas on Sep.21, 2009, under Government
The history of money is a very interesting one indeed. The barter system evolved as certain objects were traded to represent other things. Flowers, shells, feathers, and metals are just a few examples. History shows us that the ancient Liberians first used money by units of gold. Soon it became the favorite form of currency even today. The mighty shekel, the Judaic community in Israel still uses this ancient form of monetary compensation and it date backs to well before the birth of Christ. oh yeah, B.C.
The Israelites that bartered with these pieces of coin had no real financial backing for the value of the shekel. This is strange since we only understand or can inherently understand the value of money by what it is backed by. The history of money could take a freshman to senior after attempting to follow the trail, the bloody trail, of the mighty coin. Money, you know I love it.
When money today is backed by gold, it is called the gold-standard. This has evolved and today many dollars were then backed by a fraction of gold so there would not be enough to pay back everyone if they all demanded gold. Soon money evolved again and it was no longer backed by gold, but instead silver.
Soon money was no longer backed by anything, but money itself, or the faith people have in the government and federal reserve’s ability to pay them back, and their faith in others that others will still accept money as actual value.
Today money has taken one more leap where now the bank doesn’t even have the dollars to pay back the dollars that are stored. Just as there was once only a fraction of gold in reserves, now there is only a fraction of actual dollars in reserve for every dollar owed. So if the bank has $1,000 in reserves, it may loan out $10,000. The leverage was much greater in late 2008 before bear sterns collapsed as they were leveraged 40 times. This meant for every $1,000 they had, they were loaning out $40,000 and expecting interest on that money.
The monetary system is composed of many things, one is the unit of account. A unit of account is a standard numerical unit of measurement of the market value of goods, services, and other transactions. This is also known as standard or the measure of any good or service. It is the smallest and easiest method of determining th true value of something.
There is a formula to the conversion factor, this is quite complicated and can be researched online. For the basic unit of account realize that the subject at hand is the smallest form of incremental units that can be added or subtracted. That is the key to any real unit of account, can the number be added up or take from. If it has the ability to be broken down into these smaller units of measure, then the formula may be applied. The unit of measure, is a true original formulation.