
Money can even be used as an instrument of war such as when Japan attacked the Chinese Yuan’s value before any shots were fired at the beginning of WW II. The strategy was to cripple the ability of China to pay for equipping an army and fighting a war. It also seems to have had something to do with the western banking system bankrupting the Soviet Union. So, the uses of money and the forms it may take are probably infinite! Waging economic warfare can be a national strategy or it can be business to business on a competitor through more competitive products or people or more efficient use of capital. Businesses can create their own completely different form of money through the value it creates with products and services.
As changing as the monetary system is, the question still needs to be asked not only about what forms of money are in vogue today but what will the world be using in the decades to come. Will it be US dollars, Euros, Chinese Yuan or maybe back to gold or seashells or some other form? It doesn’t matter whether you do or don’t have an international business, knowing that answer to that question will affect your wealth and the decisions you make! So, it pays to do your own learning and think innovatively about finance and the fickle, forms of money, if you don’t you could be holding all your money in the form of cigarettes when the no smoking sign comes on!