If you listen carefully to discussions about the causes of the current (2008 to now—2012) economic crisis, you seldom hear anyone mention the role of money.

How can people simply ignore the role of the expansion of the quantity of money over the years?

The increase of the quantity of money (inflation), and the resultant increase in money prices, provided the catalyst for rational, yet misinformed, decisions of people at all levels of the production structure that caused the meltdown.

To not understand money means to not understand where to find the solution to this recurring problem.

With some reasons to understand money in mind, let's continue with the Objectives of this Discourse.