"The story of American money, which occupies a period of about three centuries, began when the early settlers in New England carried on their fur trade with the indians through the use of wampum, which had been fashioned from mussel shells in the form of beads. Beaver skins, wampum, and in Virginia, tobacco, soon became the common accepted media of exchange for all other available commodities. The immigrants, in fact, had little use for coined money at first, but when traders arrived from foreign lands, coins were usually demanded in payment for goods." Opening Statement of the book "A Guidebook of United States Coins" 17th Edition, 1964 by R.S. Yeoman
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE! Know Your Bank Dick: The Federal Reserve Without Walls (tags)
Hezbollah, the armed political party in Lebanon, is now handing out fresh U.S. $100 Denomination Currency Notes all over Lebanon. Item - This U.S. Currency comes from Iraq as reported by Cloak and Dagger over a year ago.
CUCKOO ECONOMICS (Abridged Ed.) (tags)
By deliberately confusing assets that can be *produced* with assets that can only be *acquired*, modern economics laid the ideological foundation for unemployment, poverty, inequality, and the looming global depression.