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Today we're talking money! Learn what you probably already learned in high school but have since forgot, all about the US economy, currency, and how our money works.

 Sources:

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/092413/how-currency-works.asp#:~:text=The%20United%20States%20is%20just,denomination%20cheaper%20for%20foreign%20investors.

How Currency Works     By DANIEL KURT     Updated May 31, 2022

Reviewed by MICHAEL J BOYLE     Fact checked by KIRSTEN ROHRS SCHMITT

https://money.com/what-is-fiat-money/

What Is Fiat Money?     By: Money Staff       Editor: Jill Cornfield     

 Fact checked by: Lawrence Carrel     Published: Feb 13, 2023

https://www.usgoldbureau.com/news/us-dollar-fiat-currency

How Did the U.S. Dollar Become a Fiat Currency?

September 27, 2022     Ryan Watkins, Op-Ed Contributor

https://portal.ct.gov/DOB/Consumer/Consumer-Education/ABCs-of-Banking---Banks-and-Our-Economy

ABCs of Banking     From Connecticut’s Official State Website

Provided by the State of Connecticut, Department of Banking, based on information from the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS)

https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-how-much-us-currency-there-is-in-circulation-2018-4

Here's how much US currency there is in circulation?

Jeff Desjardins, Visual Capitalist Apr 18, 2018, 6:30 PM CDT

https://www.econ.iastate.edu/node/673

Why can't we just print more money, since it really isn't representative of anything of value?

Ask an Economist

Answered by:   Joydeep Bhattacharya   Professor

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2012/09/basics.htm

Back to Basics     What Is Money?

FINANCE & DEVELOPMENT, September 2012, Vol. 49, No. 3

Irena Asmundson and Ceyda Oner     International Monetary Fund