In America, it is called a dollar. In England, it is called a pound. In Europe, it is called a euro. In Israel, it is called a shekel. In China, it is called a yen. Different countries call it different things, but we all know it is money. It is everywhere. Money has been around forever.

Interestingly, we didn’t start using paper money until the mid-1600’s, before that it was gold, silver, and bronze. Before that it was a unit of weight like barley or bread. By itself money really is nothing. It is just paper and rocks and stuff. What makes money anything is the value that we place on it.

[Hold up a dollar bill] It looks so harmless. It looks so benign. We are taught from birth that the more of it you have the better off you are. Yet, a man who certainly has a lot of it, Sylvester Stallo…