Dear Colleagues, When Winston Churchill says "War on all fronts" he means what he says. See back in history of the relations between those foundling forefathers the Americans who fought for independence and are now called revolutionaries but who were known in England as terrorists, rebels, extremists, crooks, criminals, and upstarts who haven't yet learned to live below their station... See url: http://www.investopedia.com/articles/07/cash_wars.asp If you follow the urls from the above, you will find some interesting information on the history of money and how it was used, how it was valued and how it was undervalued and undermined. You could also read Karl Marx's "Das Kapital" or Adam Smith's "The Commonwealth of Nations" or Friedman on "Money", but the above version is so much easier, in my view, because it is more practical in its theories... see url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman Enjoy ATB Dougie.