【答案解析】1. There are additionally a wider sense of the word "money", covering anything that is used as a means of exchange, whatever form it may take.
2. Credit is offered only when creditors believe that they have a good chance of obtaining legal tender when they present such instruments at a bank or other authorized institution. If a man"s assets are known to be considerable, then his credit will be good.
3. But the demand for money is related not only to the quantity of business but also to the rapidity with which the business is done.
4. If too much money is available, its value decreases, and it does not buy as much as it did, say, five years earlier. This condition is known as "inflation".
5. Banks originated as places to which people took their valuables for safe-keeping, but taday the great banks of the world have many functions in addition to acting as guardians of valuable private possessions.