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Money is any item or verifiable record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts in a particular country or socio-economic context,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=book }}</ref><ref>What Is Money? By John N. Smithin. Retrieved July-17-09.</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> or is easily converted to such a form. The main functions of money are distinguished as: a medium of exchange; a unit of account; a store of value; and, sometimes, a standard of deferred payment.<ref name="mankiw">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=book }}</ref><ref name="greco">T.H. Greco. Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender, White River Junction, Vt: Chelsea Green Publishing (2001). ISBN 1-890132-37-3</ref> Any item or verifiable record that fulfills these functions can be considered money.
Money is historically an emergent market phenomenon establishing a commodity money, but nearly all contemporary money systems are based on fiat money.<ref name="mankiw"/> Fiat money, like any check or note of debt, is without intrinsic use value as a physical commodity. It derives its value by being declared by a government to be legal tender; that is, it must be accepted as a form of payment within the boundaries of the country, for "all debts, public and private".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Such laws in practice cause fiat money to acquire the value of any of the goods and services that it may be traded for within the nation that issues it.
The money supply of a country consists of currency (banknotes and coins) and, depending on the particular definition used, one or more types of bank money (the balances held in checking accounts, savings accounts, and other types of bank accounts). Bank money, which consists only of records (mostly computerized in modern banking), forms by far the largest part of broad money in developed countries.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=book }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Bernstein, Peter, A Primer on Money and Banking, and Gold, Wiley, 2008 edition, pp29-39</ref>
Money sections
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