In Green We Trust

What This Book Covers

1. Chapter One - The Money That Didn’t Exist
2. Chapter Two - Trust Us, It’s Money
3. Chapter Three - Land, Paper, Panic
4. Chapter Four - Jackson’s War on the Monster
5. Chapter Five - Cotton Backed Currency
6. Chapter Six - Gold Fever
7. Chapter Seven - The Greenback Experiment
8. Chapter Eight - Panic, Paper, Progress
9. Chapter Nine - Gold Standard, Broken Promises
10. Chapter Ten - Bretton Woods and the New Empire
11. Chapter Eleven - Nixon’s Decoupling: The Dollar Goes God Mode
12. Chapter Twelve - Petrodollar: The Oil-Blood Pact
13. Chapter Thirteen - Inflation, Recession, Repeat
14. Chapter Fourteen - 2008: Faith Collapses, the Dollar Doesn’t
15. Chapter Fifteen - The Dollarverse

Excerpt

CHAPTER ONE The Money That Didn’t Exist THE UNITED STATES was born broke. Not metaphorically. Not poetically. Literally. There was no real currency. No central bank. No plan. Just a war effort, a dream of independence — and a stack of IOUs nobody expected to be worth a damn. The Revolution had been financed with desperation. And desperation doesn’t pay well. The Continental Congress printed money because it had no choice. They called it the Continental. It wasn’t backed by gold. Or silver. Or land. Or anything. It was backed by hope. And that hope ran out fast. By the end of the war, a Continental dollar wouldn’t buy you a sandwich. The phrase “not worth a Continental” wasn’t a joke — it...