Mrs. Piirimae's Global Business Project: Coronavirus: Currency

Cryptocurrency holds the promise of a financial system without a middleman, one owned by the people who use it and one safeguarded from the devastation of a 2008-type crash. But bitcoin, the most famous of the cybermonies, carries a reputation for instability, wild fluctuation, and illicit business; some fear it has the power to eliminate jobs and to upend the concept of a nation-state. It implies, above all, monumental and wide-reaching change--for better and for worse. - Vigna and Casey demystify cryptocurrency--its origins, its function, and what you need to know to navigate a cyber-economy. The digital currency world will look very different from the paper currency world

Defines economic terms, concepts, and organizations and provides six lessons on economics, covering the Federal Reserve, gross domestic product, the government's spending pattern, the national debt, the history of currency, and business cycles.

Explains the history, culture, and meaning of money, describing the history of money and the birth of American money, and discussing electronic money, the American and global economies, the history of capitalism, and other related topics.