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What's Behind the Dollar?
Money - where does it come from? Money expert James Bernard Quilligan, Executive Director of the Center for Global Negotiations, describes where U.S. money comes from, and why, even today, all U.S. money comes from the private Federal Reserve Bank, not from the U.S. Treasury. The U.S. currency is to backed only by debt, but this was not always so!
Find out where all that money comes from, with author Krista Keenan.
Cash Out of Manhattan
Pierre tries to find out why property in Manhattan in New York City is so expensive. So much money is trapped in buildings and land! Is it made of gold? Is it food?
Pierre says that we could help the world so much by selling property in Manhattan, and using the extra good money to help the world.
Produced by: Pierre Terre, 4/22/2006
Language: English
Run Time: 1 min. 30 sec.
Story Level 2 = Children may need to ask their parents about the meaning of the Story
