Category Archives: Stone Money Links

I am a nanny. I clean, I cook, I change diapers, and I also play board games. I am a professional Sorry player, a whiz at Chutes and Ladders, and not one to be messed with when playing Clue. But … Continue reading →

Your house is for sale and I’m going to purchase it with a large rock at the bottom of the ocean. Deal? This may sound crazy to you but this actually happened on an Island called Yap. Well I’m not … Continue reading →

Money is fiction, that is, according to the dispositions and conclusions of certain outspoken individuals, including, primarily, reporters from an NPR broadcast and an essayist from Stanford University by the name of Milton Friedman. These parties, and more, discuss the … Continue reading →

Money in this day’s age as well as thousands of year ago, still plays an important role to our society. In order for most of us people in the United States and other countries around the world to live, we … Continue reading →

At a young age I was told money could buy you happiness. After all, as a child who would get whatever I desired, I began to believe it was true. No matter how I felt at the moment, whether I … Continue reading →

Money is, to this day, primitive. While the monetary system has certain adapted over time through different cultures and time periods, the basic principles that rule our wealth have never shifted from its concrete foundation. Whether a strip of paper, … Continue reading →

The idea of money has evolved over thousands of years; beginning with the simple process of bartering goods between merchants, and now to the belief that dollars, cents, francs, and euros have an identifiable worth to them. I have sometimes … Continue reading →

There is one thing, and maybe the most important thing, that I have learned from my extensive research of currency from the past and from the present: money is not real. Money is this fictional idea that we have been … Continue reading →

I have always felt that money was somewhat of a nebulous concept; during the process of my research on the Yap and their stone money system, some of my thoughts were confirmed. Each society has a different currency and a … Continue reading →

As a child, it didn’t take long for me to realize that money was important. After all, I saw my mom buy me food and toys all the time. Then I saw the intensity of how essential money was when … Continue reading →