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provides websites, books, and newsletters about dozens of topics -- economics, economic trends, the Federal Reserve system, U.S. monetary policy, great economists, and personal finance. Learn about banking basics; building wealth; inflation; foreign trade; financial markets, housing, and the economy; why kindergarten age matters; young Americans and competition in the global economy; speculative bubbles; and more. (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, The Federal Reserve )
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By the end of the Civil War, between one-third and one-half of all U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit. On July 5, 1865, the Secret Service was created under the U.S. Treasury Department. In less than a decade, counterfeiting was sharply reduced. |
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