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April 20, 2018
Weekly Economic News Roundup and credit card signatures
April 20, 2018
The Mystery of the Disappearing Credit Card Signature

Soon, the credit card signature will be extinct and so too will another transaction "cost" that made spending money a little more difficult.

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December 26, 2017
bitcoin
December 26, 2017
Why Bitcoin Is Not Money

By spending bitcoin, we see the multiple reasons that calling it a cryptocurrency can be misleading because it is not money.

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December 4, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Venezuela's hyperinflation
December 4, 2017
The Chaos Created By Venezuela’s Soaring Inflation Rate

When Venezuela's inflation rate entered the stratosphere, it created chaos that shifted the rhythm and rationality of daily life.

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November 26, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup and employee pay
November 26, 2017
Why the Secret Service Monitors Fake Movie Money

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September 19, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Warren Buffett bet
September 19, 2017
The Results of Warren Buffett’s Million Dollar Bet

With a Vanguard S&P Index fund competing against a group of hedge funds, a decade-long Warren Buffett bet for $1 million has just ended.

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September 14, 2017
Zimbabwe currency
September 14, 2017
The Money That People Won’t Spend

Swinging from hyperinflation to deflation, the value of Zimbabwe currency has created uncertainty for more than a decade.

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July 21, 2017
making money
July 21, 2017
Deciding What is Real Money

While intuitively, we know the characteristics of money, when we receive a bent coin or a half of a dollar bill, we might wonder if we can spend it.

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June 8, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup and quantitative easing
June 8, 2017
Throwback Thursday: The Best Banking Regulation

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April 11, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup and cash payments
April 11, 2017
Where Cash (sort of) Rules

Like Mark Twain saying, "The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated," non-cash payments have not eliminated currency.

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March 5, 2017
minimum wage debate
March 5, 2017
What We Can Learn From Big Mac Prices

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February 16, 2017
Weekly economic News Roundup and $100 bills
February 16, 2017
An Artist Who Made Money

As an artist, a forger, or both, J.S.G. Boggs has made museums, colleges, Scotland Yard and the U.S. Secret Service decide what is fake money.

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January 16, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup and mobile money
January 16, 2017
Where Phones Pump Money

Kenya's economic development has been fueled by a mobile banking system that makes it easy to save, send and spend money with a cell phone.

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