I look forward to future installments. Will you be talking about the gold standard at all? It is my understanding that at one point we were only creating curreny that we could back with gold. And then at one point the us government ordered all citizens to surrender their gold in exchange for government backed notes... effectively giving the people something inherently worthless for something tangible and valuable. Is there any truth to that? If so, seems pretty shady and like something they should be teaching in schools.