I was born in an era when you had to get off your chair, walk over to your TV and turn the knob to change channels. We certainly are no longer in Kansas, toto! What we call money is always changing: It once was salt and in fact the word - salary, stems from when salt was money. It evolved into metals like gold and silver. Gold is still money today. When it became laborious to carry gold coins around, we developed notes. So the gold was stored in a safe and the notes value derived from the gol...

I was born in an era when you had to get off your chair, walk over to your TV and turn the knob to change channels. We certainly are no longer in Kansas, toto! What we call money is always changing: It once was salt and in fact the word - salary, stems from when salt was money. It evolved into metals like gold and silver. Gold is still money today. When it became laborious to carry gold coins around, we developed notes. So the gold was stored in a safe and the notes value derived from the gol...