money

Your “dirty” cash will soon be extinct: for your safety, of course.

Here’s the latest pronouncement from the elite ivory tower of the Bloomberg editors: “Cash had a pretty good run for 4,000 years or so. These days, though, notes and coins increasingly seem declasse; they’re dirty and dangerous, unwieldy and expensive, antiquated and so very analog.” Yes indeed.  Cash is, as they say, “déclassé,” a characteristic of the lower classes. Hmm, Read More


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What happens if we’ve run out of cash?

During the Great Depression, people would pay for services with food because they had no money and no credit. The situation was so bad that in some areas of the country, local governments issued their own currencies called depression scrip. The scrip were often pieces of paper used as money because government currency was nowhere to be seen. Read More