Your Money - Personal Finance

We are all familiar with money. It seems to be rather popular. Still, few know how to wield this tool effectively. That can be a problem, but it doesn't have to be.

The experts refer to money as a medium of exchange. This means that we use it as a way of denoting value, but it is not the value itself. For example, if you do three and a half chickens worth of work, your boss will not give you three and half chickens. Instead, the boss will give you notes that you can trade for three and half chickens worth of other stuff. You cannot eat the money, but you can trade it for things you can eat.

It may seem odd, but money seems to be a source of great concern to many people. They want more of it, but they really want more of the stuff for which they can trade it, and enough that they will always have enough to trade when hunger lurks. Just how much is that?