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Money Video and Quiz

Updated: July 12 2012,
Author: barrel jason
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Economic Institutions, Money, Trade, Exchange and Interdependence
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This video teaches the concept of Money. Money is anything that is used to buy and sell goods and services. In different times and places, many different items have served as money: gold, silver, shells, cattle, tobacco and printed paper currency. [TRANSCRIPT]

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