Free Kids Book About the Banking System (PDF/EPub)

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Are your kids curious about the banking system? Are you? Law professor Mehrsa Baradaran wrote A Kids Book About Banking and it is currently available free via download in either PDF or EPub format. Physical copies (not free) are available on Amazon. Found via Axios.

Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapsed overnight and we found ourselves wishing we knew more about how banks worked… so, we made a book!

When you think of a bank, what comes to mind? A building? A safe, filled with gold? What if we told you banks weren’t any of these things? And (get ready for this)…most money isn’t even kept in the bank! Banking is a system that allows money to move from one place to another, creating opportunities and growth. And banks only work with a shared belief in the magic of money.

It’s a good way to start a conversation, but be warned, it might be kind of scary to YOU as an adult to be reminded that all your bank deposits, the result of possibly decades of hard work, are just a bunch of 1s and 0s on a computer database somewhere. There is no gold in a vault. There are just banks taking your money and creating even more money via fractional-reserve banking. But it all collapses if we don’t collectively trust the system, or “believe in magic”. Every time I read about this system, I reconsider buying a plot of land nearby that I can see and walk on.

I tried reading it to my youngest kid, but she preferred talking vegetables and listening to The Cool Bean for the 87th time instead. I think she’s still in the trading strange metal coins for candy phase of learning about money.

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  1. Objective Ace says

    >YOU as an adult to be reminded that all your bank deposits, the result of possibly decades of hard work, are just a bunch of 1s and 0s on a computer database somewhere. There is no gold in a vault. There are just banks taking your money and creating even more money via fractional-reserve banking.

    Even when there was gold in a vault, your bank deposits where just numbers on a paper. The fractional reserve system has been along well before we went off the gold standard. Now – at least we can be sure the Fed will come to our rescue, either through FDIC insurance or just by printing money as they are doing for the SVB saga

  2. The government can take your land just as easily as they can take your money. All is lost.

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