What is money, and how does it work? This book unfolds a panoramic secret history and explains the truth about money: what it is, where it comes from, and how it works. It rearranges your understanding of the world and shows how money can once again become the powerful force for freedom we have ever[...]

What is money, and how does it work? The conventional answer is that people once used sugar in the West Indies, tobacco in Virginia, and dried cod in Newfoundland, and that today's financial universe evolved from barter. Unfortunately, there is a problem with this story. It's wrong. And not just wro[...]

Als Wunderkind bezauberte Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy den alten Goethe durch sein Klavierspiel, als Siebzehnjähriger erstaunte er die Welt mit einer genialen Ouvertüre zum "Sommernachtstraum". Seine zahlreichen weiteren Werke machten ihn bald zum Liebling seiner Epoche. Doch in der Wagner-Ära san[...]