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Part II: Speed Article 2 Types of Money
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Money can be described as a token or a payment option which is used in our society to settle debts and to pay for the services and commodities which are provided to us. In other words, money is the medium of exchange in our society which has also been accepted by the law. Money plays a pivotal role in a country's economy.
The main functions of money are:
- It is a medium of exchange
- It gives purchasing power to consumer to pay for goods and services
- It is a unit of account
- It is a unit measure of value.
- It is a standard of deferred payment
There are several kinds of money varying in liability and strength. The society has modified the money at different times and in this way several types of money are introduced. When there was ample availability of metals, metal money came into existence later it was substituted by the paper money. At different times, several commodities were used as the medium of exchange. So, it can be said that according to the needs and availability of means, the kinds of money has changed.
There are 4 major types of money:
- Commodity Money
- Fiat Money
- Fiduciary Money
- Commercial Bank Money
Commodity Money
It is the simplest kind of money which is used in barter system where the valuable resources fulfill the functions of money. The value of this kind of money comes from the value of resource used for the purpose. It is only limited by the scarcity of the resources. Value of this kind of money involves the parties associated with the exchange process. These money have intrinsic value.
Whenever any commodity is used for the exchange purpose, the commodity becomes equivalent to the money and is called commodity money. There are certain types of commodity, which are used as the commodity money. Among these, there are several precious metals like gold, silver, copper and many more. Again, in many parts of the world, seashells (also known as cowrie shells), tobacco and many other items were in use as a type of money & medium of exchange.
Ex: gold coins, beads, shells, pearls, stones, tea, sugar, metal
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Q1: The reason why commodity money was used is that they are kind of __________
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Fiat Money
The word fiat means the "command of the sovereign". Fiat currency is the kind of money which don't have any intrinsic value and it can't converted into valuable resource. The value of fiat money is determined by government order which makes it a legal instrument for all transaction purposes. The fiat money need to be controlled as it may affect entire economy of a country if it is misused. Today Fiat money is the basis of all the modern money system. The real value of fiat money is determined by the market forces of demand and supply.
Ex: Paper money, Coins
Fiduciary Money
Today's monetary system is highly fiduciary. Whenever, any bank assures the customers to pay in different types of money and when the customer can sell the promise or transfer it to somebody else, it is called the fiduciary money. Fiduciary money is generally paid in gold, silver or paper money. There are cheques and bank notes, which are the examples of fiduciary money because both are some kind of token which are used as money and carry the same value.
Commercial Bank Money
Commercial Bank money or demand deposits reclaims against financial institutions that can be used for the purchase of goods and services. A demand deposit account is an account from which funds can be withdrawn at any time by cheque or cash withdrawal without giving the bank or financial institution any prior notice. Banks have the legal obligation to return funds held in demand deposits immediately upon demand (or 'at call'). Demand deposit withdrawals can be performed in person, via cheques or bank drafts, using automatic teller machines (ATMs), or through online banking.
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Q2: When your customer pays you with the check, what kind of money he is using?
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Interesting facts about various types of money:
• In China cowry shells are regarded as money during 1000 B.C to 1200 B.C.
• Leather bags are treated as money in the ancient city of Carthage.
• Copper coins are treated as money by Romans 600B.C.
• Silver coins are treated as money by Ancient Persians between 600-300 B.C.
• Gold Coins are treated as money in 600 B.C in Anatolia (Asian Turkey or Asia Minor)
• Paper Money first appeared in China about 800 AD . In Europe, Sweden is the First country to issue Paper Money in 1661.
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Source: mapsofworld.com
http://finance.mapsofworld.com/money/types/
Article 3 20 Things You Didn't Know About... Money
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1 No escape: As you file your taxes this month, you can take solace in knowing that the ritual dates back almost 5,000 years, to a time when Egyptians started paying taxes in goods and labor.
2 Collecting taxes became a lot easier after Egypt and Mesopotamia began using silver and gold bars as currency, around 2500 B.C.
3 Unfortunately, the invention of money also made theft a lot easier. Consequently, temples became the first banks because they were sturdy, frequently visited, and intimidating to would-be thieves.
4 But did they offer subprime mortgages? By 1750 B.C., Babylonian temple priests had branched out into issuing loans to locals.
5 Back then they didn’t need bailouts. Founded in Italy as a pawnshop in 1472, the Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena is the world’s oldest surviving bank.
6 Paper money originated in China in the year 910 and amazed Marco Polo when he visited three centuries later. He also noted that the emperor, Kublai Khan, seemed to be printing an awful lot of notes…
7 …which ultimately wrecked the economy. Due to skyrocketing inflation caused by churning out so much money, paper bills had to be abolished in China in the 15th century.
8 Return of the funny money: The expense of the U.S. Civil War inspired the government to introduce paper “greenbacks” in July 1861.
9 All the U.S. coins and bills in general circulation today have a total worth of about $829 billion.
10 Two-thirds of that cash is held overseas.
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Q3: Why did paper bills be abolished in China in the 15th century?
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11 Filthy lucre: In a study last year, researchers found more cocaine residue on U.S. bills than on any other currency. Also found on money: staphylococcus bacteria and fecal matter.
12 That may explain why, for a period around 1916, you could carry your cash to Washington, D.C., to have it washed, ironed, and reissued.
13 The paper used for U.S. bills isn’t made from trees. Rather, it contains 75 percent cotton and 25 percent linen.
14 To foil counterfeiters, the latest $5 bill design has an embedded security thread that contains more than 650,000 tiny glass domes. They create an optical illusion that the Mint hopes is almost impossible to duplicate.
15 He left home without it: In 1949 Frank X. McNamara took friends to dinner in New York City but forgot to bring his cash. He vowed never again to be so embarrassed and so created the Diners Club Card, the first credit card.
16 The Diners Club Card was initially made of cardboard. It listed the 14 participating restaurants on the back and had an annual fee of $3.
17 Scottish inventor John Shepherd-Barron built the world’s first true ATM for a Barclay’s Bank in North London in 1967.
18 The machine was based on the concept of a chocolate bar dispenser.
19 Plastic cards did not yet exist, so Shepherd-Barron’s ATM accepted only checks laced with identifying traces of radioactive carbon-14.
20 Once a distinctively radioactive check was detected, customers entered their four-digit PINs. Shepherd-Barron claimed users “would have to eat 136,000 checks” for the radioactivity to have any dangerous effects.
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Q4: How did the earliest ATM detect checks?
Source: Discover
http://discovermagazine.com/2009/apr/20-things-you-didnt-know-about-money#.UontK8TUPDA
Article 3 Introduction to Currency Trading By Kathy Lien, Boris Schlossberg, Casey Murphy, Chad Langager and Albert Phung
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The foreign exchange market (forex or FX for short) is one of the most exciting, fast-paced markets around. Until recently, forex trading in the currency market had been the domain of large financial institutions, corporations, central banks, hedge funds and extremely wealthy individuals. The emergence of the internet has changed all of this, and now it is possible for average investors to buy and sell currencies easily with the click of a mouse through online brokerage accounts.
Daily currency fluctuations are usually very small. Most currency pairs move less than one cent per day, representing a less than 1% change in the value of the currency. This makes foreign exchange one of the least volatile financial markets around. Therefore, many currency speculators rely on the availability of enormous leverage to increase the value of potential movements. In the retail forex market, leverage can be as much as 250:1. Higher leverage can be extremely risky, but because of round-the-clock trading and deep liquidity, foreign exchange brokers have been able to make high leverage an industry standard in order to make the movements meaningful for currency traders.
Extreme liquidity and the availability of high leverage have helped to spur the market's rapid growth and made it the ideal place for many traders. Positions can be opened and closed within minutes or can be held for months. Currency prices are based on objective considerations of supply and demand and cannot be manipulated easily because the size of the market does not allow even the largest players, such as central banks, to move prices at will.
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Q5: In order to make movements more meaningful, what are foreign exchange brokers doing?
Source: INVESTOPEDIA
http://www.investopedia.com/university/forexmarket/
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