What is a dollar? Is it a piece of paper? A number in an account? Have you heard of the Bitcoin in recent years? What is that, then? The Bitcoin is one of a number of money alternatives being tried … → read more
Think for a moment about the last 5 marketing messages that came before your eyes. Was it difficult or easy? 50 years ago, you would have gone back a couple hours in your memory. Perhaps to the newspaper ads you … → read more
Live on a budget? Pay yourself first? Cut up your credit cards? Check out the answers on reddit.com
What if I told you that every day, someone destroys more than four TONS of cash? It’s true! The treasury department collects dirty or damaged dollar bills and shreds them into confetti-sized pieces at a rate of up to $1,000,000 … → read more
In the 1800’s, new photography technology was being used to make illegal copies of the dollar. As a result, the treasury department sought to invent a system for keeping the dollar from being copied. At that time, the illegal copies … → read more
Many decades ago, all coins were made from solid gold or silver. The amount of metal used in the coin was equal to its value ($10 of gold in a $10 gold coin, etc.) Before coins’ edges had ridges, dishonest … → read more
Ever wonder why we don’t have ‘Doggie Banks’ instead of ‘Piggy Banks’? The term comes from a reddish clay used for making pottery in the Middle Ages, called ‘pygg’. Money was often kept in jars or pots made of pygg. … → read more
