This comes straight from Robert Kiyosaki. I heard him say this and it took me a few years of learning about how the money system works to understand what this really means. At first, I took it to be like a parable or a metaphor that was meant to make a point. I have come to learn that it is quite literal. Every single dollar, peso, yen, euro and every other type of legal tender is created as a loan with interest due. Only after knowing this could I begin to understand how money really works, it gave me a whole new world view. Let's talk about what that means to you, how you use money in your life and how it can help you reach financial certainty. The first big question is, if every dollar has interest due, then where is the interest supposed to come from?..... The simple answer is that someone is going to have to lose, this is why the system always feels rigged. If you were not born rich, the system is designed for you to fail. In the US, there are three ways that new money is created. There is government debt, the Federal Reserve creates money and loans it to the government so that they can continue their operations. And there is personal debt that is issued when you buy a home or get a credit card. The third is business loans. When the government borrows money, it is an interest only loan. This is the purpose of income tax, the government is collecting the revenue to pay the interest on the loan they got. As long as they keep paying, they can keep borrowing more, this is the reason that the deficit will only continue to grow. What most people do not know is that when the bank is loaning you money for a home, they are creating new money, the same is true for your credit card balance. We are taught to believe that the bank is loaning out all the money they have on hand from everyones deposits but this is not true. They are simply making an accounting entry into your account. As everyone knows, when you get a home loan, it is secured by the real property so the bank can sell the home to recoup their "losses". Essentially what this means is that the interest on those loans is being paid by those who lose their homes to foreclosure. With credit cards, I think we all know where that interest is coming from.