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Essential Facts About the History of Money

Money shapes every aspect of modern life, but its journey from ancient commodities to digital currency spans thousands of years. The story of money reveals how human societies solved the fundamental ...
The New York Times

Making Sense of Dollars and Cents

Learned, lively and often irreverent, David McWilliams’s “The History of Money” is rich with surprising details about currency, then and now. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an independently ...

Money Museum director in Colorado Springs helps make sense of the penny’s demise

Abraham Lincoln was three years away from being elected president when the half-cent coin was discontinued as an official ...
Santa Monica Daily Press

Teen Author Chronicles 5,000 Years of Money History in New Book

Seventeen-year-old Alexander Paris-Callahan, a recent Santa Monica High School graduate now attending UC Berkeley, has released "500 Events That Shaped the History of Money," tracing financial ...
insider.si.edu

A history of money and banking in the United States : the colonial era to World War II / Murray N. Rothbard ; ed ; with an introduction by Joseph T. Salerno

Introduction / Joseph T. Salerno -- pt. 1. The history of money and banking before the twentieth century -- pt. 2. The origins of the Federal Reserve -- pt. 3. From Hoover to Roosevelt : the Federal ...
The Motley Fool

U.S. Money Supply Just Made History! But It's a Recent Shift -- the First Since the Great Depression -- That Historically Leads to a Big Move in Stocks.

A bout of historic volatility on Wall Street has investors searching for correlative events and data points that might signal which direction stocks will move next. Historical shifts in U.S. M2 money ...
The Motley Fool

U.S. Money Supply Is Making History on Both Ends -- Including a First Since the Great Depression -- and It Portends a Wild Ride for Stocks

When historic volatility strikes Wall Street, it's not uncommon for investors to seek out metrics and events that have strongly correlated with moves higher or lower in the Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq.