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The Architecture of Money
How today’s money system really works, from the Federal Reserve to your credit card rate, in plain English.
Parts
Part 1How the Fed Works: The 4 Numbers Behind Your Credit Card Rate
Part 2When Money Stopped Being Gold: From Gold to Fiat to Digital Money
Part 3Who Really Creates Money? Central Banks, Commercial Banks and Credit
Part 4Hong Kong 1997–1998: When the Market Attacked the Hong Kong Dollar
Part 5Argentina 2001–2002: When 1 Peso = 1 Dollar Collapsed
Part 6When Debt Becomes a System: How the World Runs on Debt
Part 7The 5 Levels of Finance: From Borrowing to Tokenization
Part 8Bitcoin, Stablecoins and Power: Is Crypto Becoming a Dollar Strategy?
Part 9BRICS and the Dollar: Escape the USD, or Find Another Path?
Part 10What If a New Currency Were Gold-Backed? The Redemption Test
Part 11Why the World Still Needs the U.S. Dollar
Part 12When Money Is No Longer Just Money: The Architecture Behind It
New to the topic? Read the first book, The Architecture of Civilization, for the story of how money, banks and trust began.
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