"MONEY MAKES the world go round," sings Joel Grey in the 1972 film Cabaret. William Shakespeare was more poetic about it, saying in Timon of Athens that "yellow, glittering, precious gold" has the ...

explain the creation and meaning of money. He reached into his wallet and fished out a 10-pound note. This note is worth 10 pounds, he said, because you and I and all the people walking around on ...