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Introduction to global finance looking at where money comes from, the current mechanisms for control and the need to reform.
Synopsis
Explains the basic concepts of finance - how money is created, and how decisions by banking and other financial service corporations are determining the fate of billions of people. This book traces the origins of money, as a source of exchange and a store of value, and the many weird and wonderful forms it takes - visible and invisible.