Money is Worthless. Let me explain. Money is just a convenient way of expressing the value of an item. It is quite possible to express the value of items in other terms instead. For example, we generally say things like, “That house is worth $500,000 dollars.” Instead we could express this by saying that the house is worth 12,500 ounces of silver, 16,600 gallons of unleaded gasoline,  33,800 bushels of soybeans, 1,000 big, flat screen televisions, 4327 live cattle, or any other of a thousand different things. The things I listed above (cattle, gasoline, silver, etc.) have value in and  [ Read More ]