The big push to digital currency is about convenience and speed, we are told. But it also gives powerful forces – both inside and outside of official government – vast control over not just markets, but access to markets. Markets …
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The Federal Reserve will stop printing new currency this holiday season, it was recently announced.
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Royal Australian Mint CEO Ross MacDiarmid has predicted the “graceful death” of 5 and 10 cent coins within the next 10 years. The move would leave the 20-cent coin as the lowest form of circulating currency in that country.…
Continue ReadingTesting is soon to begin in parts of Africa for a biometric ID system that will include vaccine records, and also, notably, payment systems.
The systems are being backed by the GAVI vaccine alliance, which is largely backed by …
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The Kroger Company has stopped giving coins back to cash-paying customers because of a nationwide coin shortage. The remainders can be donated to charity or are being transferred to loyalty cards, the company says.
“At Kroger, we are implementing …
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The U.S. Mint will be increasing production of quarters, nickels, dimes and pennies after reports of shortages of coins over the last several weeks.
Last month the Federal Reserve implemented quotas for coins to protect its inventories. Because of that, …
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The Covid19 pandemic is seemingly claiming another group of victims: quarters, pennies, nickels and dimes.
The country is facing a coin shortage because of the coronavirus outbreak, according to Chairman of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell.
“With the partial closure …
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