Money Backstory · Financial history, in motion.
How money shaped
the world.
The people, crises, and decisions behind money. Visual stories from financial history, with sources you can check.
Behind the headlines
Each episode starts
with a question.
Why did America shut its banks in 1933? How do countries pay for a war? Why did the dollar break its link to gold?
Money Backstory follows the people, crises, and decisions behind the financial world. Archival images, clear animation, and historical sources turn complex systems into stories you can see.
From bank runs and currencies to wars and bubbles, each episode follows the money.
Opening stories
Three questions.
A world of consequences.
Why Did the Dollar Lose Its Gold?
Who Really Paid for World War II?
Our publishing application
Money Backstory Uploader
From a reviewed video to a scheduled release.
A private, owner-operated desktop application for uploading the Money Backstory channel’s finished videos to YouTube.
This website explains the app’s purpose and data practices. Access to the uploader is limited to the channel owner.
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The owner reviews each finished video, title, description, thumbnail, and caption file before adding the release to the local queue.
Upload
The app checks the connected channel, uploads the video as private, and adds its thumbnail and English captions through YouTube API Services.
Schedule
After checking processing and caption status, the app sets the release time and checks whether YouTube publishes the video as scheduled.
Google account connection
Permission stays with the channel owner.
Google’s consent screen asks the owner to authorize YouTube access. The app uses that permission to identify the owner’s channel, upload content, manage the queued releases, and check their status.
The owner can pause local automation and revoke Google account access. Videos already scheduled on YouTube stay scheduled until the owner changes them in YouTube Studio.
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Money Backstory