The history of American currency is a fascinating one, evolving from the earliest colonial coinage through the introduction of Continental bills to "greenbacks" and the pennies, nickels, dimes ...

We always had private money, We only stopped having it when the government got overbearing, like in 1907. Bitcoin points back ...

In any case, barter among humans certainly pre-dates the use of money. Today individuals ... had never been tied directly to gold. In the United States, the Gold Standard Act was officialy ...

Page 97. Library of Congress. "Banking History: Central Banking and the Currency Question in the United States." University of Virginia: Miller Center. "February 8, 1878: Veto of Bland-Allison Act ...

President Donald Trump pitched the idea of eliminating the federal income tax entirely to instead tariff and tax foreign ...

One US dollar has only been worth more than €1 a handful of times in the history of the single European currency – on a few occasions between 2000 and 2002 and then in mid 2022. Now ...