Money As Debt: How Banks Loan Money They Don't Have to Create Money We Owe Them!
How Our Society Creates Money: Indispensable Information for Consumers, Adults, Kids, and Homeschool
What is money? How is it created, where does it come from, what backs the printed paper we spend? This is a huge and incredibly confusing topic, especially for anyone not in the finance industry. This animated video (broken into five short segments) presents this complex subject in a way that even a fifth-grader can comprehend, with a bit of concentration and a few pauses for explanations. My fifth-grade son and I watched it and I was astonished at how much I learned ... and how much he has ...

Million ~ Billion ~ Trillion ... What's the Diff?
A Trillion Can't Be THAT Much More, Can It?
Million, billion, trillion ... all big numbers. A trillion is just a bigger number, right? True ... but it may be bigger than you think. A million is hard enough to imagine, much less a billion. We need some perspective on what these unimaginable numbers really mean.

Desert Wall Street?
How much can we stop giving to the 1%?
If the money that enriches mega-banks and mega-corporations is our money, how far are we willing to go to get them off of our dole? How much control are individuals able and willing to take back? Along with the advocacy for changes in government policies that the Occupy Wall Street movement is fighting for, what can we change on a personal level? Is it possible for us to vote with our feet and Desert Wall Street? Photo of New York Stock Exchange, digitally altered and shared on Wikimedia C...

What A Thousand Dollars is Worth Around the Globe
OR: How Many Macs Can You Get for A Thousand Bucks Wherever in the World You Just Happen To Be? OR:
How expensive or cheap is a Big Mac in the States? in Canada? in England? How about China? Japan? The Philippines? Why would you want to know? Assuming that Big Macs are made according to the same formula around the world, then one should be able to compare the relative buying powers of different currencies. The Big Mac was the only product I could think of that may be uniform enough to compare how far one thousand dollars would get you in various nations across the globe. Then I discovered ...