National currency | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-23

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money


00:01:34 1 Treatment in economics
00:02:07 2 Precious metals
00:02:59 3 History
00:03:07 3.1 China
00:04:47 3.2 Europe
00:05:45 3.3 New France 1685–1770
00:09:01 3.4 18th and 19th century
00:11:25 3.5 20th century
00:12:58 4 Money creation and regulation
00:14:51 5 Inflation
00:16:30 6 Loss of backing
00:17:14 7 See also



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SUMMARY
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Fiat money is a currency without intrinsic value that has been established as money, often by government regulation. Fiat money does not have use value, and has value only because a government maintains its value, or because parties engaging in exchange agree on its value. It was introduced as an alternative to commodity money and representative money. Commodity money is created from a good, often a precious metal such as gold or silver, which has uses other than as a medium of exchange (such a good is called a commodity). Representative money is similar to fiat money, but it represents a claim on a commodity (which can be redeemed to a greater or lesser extent).Fiat money first began to be used in China in the 11th century. Since then, it has been used by various countries, usually concurrently with commodity currencies. Fiat money started to dominate in the 20th century. Since the decoupling of the US dollar from gold by Richard Nixon in 1971, a system of national fiat currencies has been used globally.
Fiat money has been defined variously as:

Any money declared by a government to be legal tender.
State-issued money which is neither convertible by law to any other thing, nor fixed in value in terms of any objective standard.
Intrinsically valueless money used as money because of government decree.
An intrinsically useless object that serves as a medium of exchange (also known as fiduciary money.)The term fiat derives from the Latin fiat ("let it be done") used in the sense of an order, decree or resolution.