Showing posts with label financial system. Show all posts
Showing posts with label financial system. Show all posts

Thursday, December 04, 2008

What is money?

Ever wondered what gives money its value? or where your loan or mortgage money comes from?

In this 47-minute video, Paul Grignon lays out the inner workings of how banks work in simple terms and nifty animations...



Take the vid with a grain of salt however b/c there seem to be a few non-sensical moments and possible inaccuracies, especially when he hints at conspiracies by cherry-picking quotations bashing banking from Lincoln and Garfield, both cited as having been assassinated.

Although it's a cynical, biased view of the financial system, for anyone interested in trying to wrap their head around the financial system, this vid is a sure way learn some of the basics on how our money masters operate. Knowledge is power right?