Monetary System

A monetary system is a set of policy tools and institutions through which a government provides money and controls the money supply in an economy.

Read more about Monetary System:  Commodity Money System, Fiat Money

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    In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
    Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

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