ABOUT US
Our mission is to create accurate, clear, and practical language about the money and national economies. We believe that understanding the true nature of money is essential for making better financial decisions and building stronger communities.
We focus on explaining how money works, how it is created, and how it moves within nations and across the world. By breaking down complex financial concepts into simple, accurate information, we help individuals use money more wisely, responsibly, and confidently.
Our goal is to empower people with knowledge—so they can make informed choices, improve their financial well-being, and better understand the systems that shape our economies.
We invite everyone to make a contribution and join us in achieving this by using the Blog page.
ABOUT THE HOST
Two feature films, three cartoons, a news reel, and a serial episode cost ten cents admission to the Saturday matinee at the Jumbo theater on Girard Avenue. In that theater, on one Saturday afternoon I watched a newsreel of some business tycoons lighting cigars with $50 bills in order to show off the magnitude of their wealth. I was 12 years old but I never forgot that image and how insignificant it made me feel.
I spent my entire childhood living in poverty, watching my father struggle to make a living. He was a smart man but not very well educated. I entered puberty with a perpetual sense of panic about how I would make a living. My experiences with poverty made me want to understand why some people had so much more than others.
For help I went to what had become a major source of influence in my life, books. They satisfied my desire for information ever since my mother gave me, at the age of five, a set of encyclopedias called the “Book of knowledge”. They became a doorway to the world introducing me to history, poetry, science, geography and much much more.
During an outdoor super Sunday event I came across a vendors table set up by the Henry George school of social science. I walked away with two of his books. Progress and Poverty was one, the Science of Political Economy was the other. George's solution to the problem was to become known as the Single Tax solution where all land rent was collected as tax. It appealed to me for some time but I continued to read and discovered it to be an oversimplified approach
I felt the need to develop an understanding of what money is. After all what better place to start than with an answer to the question "what is it we are talking about? I have read several hundred books on money. So many writers trying to define money and ultimately apologizing for their inability to do so.. I have seen tomes of hundreds of pages of mathematical formulas; I read hundreds of books in which the authors struggle to define money..
There appeared to be something missing in the conversation.
Little by little the pieces as I shall reveal them to you in this book fell into place. My goal is to present simple truths seldom focused on but essential to an intelligent and productive conversation about money.
I invite you to join me on this journey.