What Backs the Value of Money? - InvestingChannel

What Backs the Value of Money?

I was reading this very good piece by Matthew Klein at FT Alphaville when I came across this line: “The only kinds of money that reliably hold their value are the ones explicitly backed by a strong government*.” This is an interesting point and one I don’t completely agree with.  I go into this in […]

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