Charnelle
What is the connection between money and tangablility? What is the connection between money and ownership? Are you able to claim wealth without people being able to witness it?

Zach
How much of our money is not in our actual possession?  How much money do we have that is no more than a number on a computer screen?  How is this different from the Uap?

Jason
How are the actions of the Federal Reserve considered fantasy? Why should the value of a dollar change based on things such as the money supply?

Briana
Is money in actuality just a fantasy?

Amanda
What is “real” about the money system? According to Friedman, we consider other currencies to be worthless because they are different than ours, but many times when we purchase things we do not even use physical money. Is realness no more than familiarity with something?  

Samantha
Does it help to think of money as a fantasy when so many people think of money as reality?

Candace
Why must currency be "tangible and enduring"? Is it actually necessary?

Meagan
If monetary value is determined by a kind of collective agreement on the part of the people that can use it, how can that money influence other things, such as the worth of something based on its "cost"?

Tom
Would money be spend more sparingly if it had real value? Does paper money promote a fantasy of exchanging something worthless for something of value?

Sean
Friedman brings up an interesting fact about the issue of the "loss" of gold from the US to France. If the strength of the dollar/the franc is this situation is based upon whether we as consumers believe it's strong, then how can we tell what our money's worth?

Yen Joe
How is trusting an account book as a proof that someone owns 100k dollars different from us trusting that research shows that smoking causes cancer? Is it possible to live in a functional society yet having to counter-check everything?

Luke
Are barter and currency based economies fundamentally the same?

Alex
If we as a society decide something is so, does it make it so?  If we were to decided paper money had no value, would it, in fact, have no value?

Danielle
Would this type of system work in America? Do we feel the need to actually possess our money in order for it to be real?

Emily
Is wealth purely symbolic? Would it exist in the United states without paper money?

Lauren
Does the fact that the Caroline Islands are seen as "primitive" make them seem less "real" to Furness, because they are less developed? How might Furness's description of the "impenetrable fog" and his preference for living with one of the traders instead of in the natives' homes demonstrate this view?

Casey
The Island of Stone Money is the true writings of William Henry Furness III on his experience on the Caroline Islands. Could his chapter on stone money just as easily be viewed as a satire on views of currency everywhere? If so, how?

Chelsea
The author along with many others responded the same way when they heard about the very wealthy family whose fei was laying at the bottom of the ocean, "How silly. How can people be so illogical?" (5). Nobody had ever seen their fortune, but the fact that it existed was enough. What are some specific examples that prove that we do this same thing?

Chelsea
How real is the money that the Federal reserve creates?

Kelly
In what ways is the use of any type of money a fantasy?

Candace
Is stone money more stable than our own? Why?

Melissa
"for money, that's all you need..is for someone to believe in it" ...does that go for everything in life? All you need is for someone to believe in something that is made up for it to become real?

Margaret
Because the people of Brazil believed the fake currency was real, it became real.  Does believing in something make it real?

Margaret
If money is fake, why are the consequences so real?

Sean
If money is simply a fantasy, then why do people lose their homes? Is their a better way to mediate the exchange of goods than something that isn't real?

Jason
If money never really existed at all, then was there really a financial crisis?

Zach
In the program they say money isn’t real because it represents money. They seem to suggest that money isn’t real because it isn’t tangible. Electricity isn’t tangible (but it can prove fatal), so it’s hard to argue it isn’t real. But even an intangible thing such as money can have real world, tangible consequences. How can money be considered fake?

Hilary
Does the intangible and abstract aura of money require that a certain amount of trust is necessary for modern currency systems to work?

Jenny
Is tangible money more of a fantasy than intangible money?

Lauren
How does faith play a role in stopping inflation and in holding the monetary system together?

Drew
Why does collective belief make something real?  Is this the same principle upon which religion is based?

Meagan
"The fictional quality of money is inherent in the very idea of money, in any system of currency, no matter how simple."  If money is fictional, what implications does this have for things that can be/are defined by money?
Casey
Would the situation in Brazil ever work in America? Would the government ever be able to trick the population into a non-existant currency? Have they already?

Will
People can say money has become a fantasy or "virtual" especially since the Federal Reserve can create it with the touch of a button. Is money inherently a fantasy or is it more real when it is based off of the amount of gold in a vault?

Ryan
Is there anything which keeps a static value? Does a static value make something real? Is there some form of currency (or not currency) that could be used for trading?

Danielle
Since large amounts of money can be easily created does this mean that money is fake? Is something that can be created real?

Connor
Is it possible to set up a financial market that is not a fantasy? Must all currency be part of a fantasy?

Amanda
If money is fiction, then why bother continuing to produce physical forms of it? If the Federal Reserve can simply create money into being and banks can then lend it, all of which takes place without physical bills being transferred, are the bills themselves even necessary?

Yen Joe
When it comes to money, it seems like its value relies completely on people's belief in it (Brazil story), but at the same time, the Fed seems to have the power to change the value of money easily. So it's structure v.s agency again. When it comes to fantasy, who has more control?

Samantha
After the financial crisis in 2009, the FED created more than three times the amount of money than had been produced previously to help with the situation. How does this differ from Brazil's creation of the capital city Brasilia? Will we suffer similar long terms effects? Why or why not? Is governmental/ economic stability just another form of fantasy?