What's Behind the Dollar?

What's Behind the Dollar?

Sep 30 2008

Money - where does it come from?  Money expert James Bernard Quilligan, Executive Director of the Center for Global Negotiations, describes where U.S. money comes from, and why, even today, all U.S. money comes from the private Federal Reserve Bank, not from the U.S. Treasury. The U.S. currency is to backed only by debt, but this was not always so!

Find out where all that money comes from, with author Krista Keenan.

Produced by: Pierre Terre, 9/30/2008
Language: English
Run Time: 14 min. 0 sec.
Story Level 2 = Children may need to ask their parents about the meaning of the Story

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