While cities, states, and countries have many more cashless transactions because of the pandemic, there is a downside.…
When It’s Legal to Launder Our Money
Worried about contaminated currency, monetary officials have quarantined cash and limited its circulation during epidemics.…
The Human Side of Money
Economic anthropologists focus on the human side of money when they see us now and in the past, as individuals, as families, and as one world.…
When Does Cash Matter?
Looking at the economic impact of India’s 2016 demonetization of large denomination rupees, researchers concluded that cash still matters.…
The Cash We Love to Stash
Although going cashless seems to be a trend, we are printing more $100 bills for people in the U.S.and elsewhere in the world.…
What Money Should Look Like
Using color, size and content, better banknote currency design would make our dollar bills more functional and meaningful.…
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.…
Why the Secret Service Monitors Fake Movie Money
When Rush Hour 2 needed many millions in 100 dollar bills, Independent Studio Services (ISS) sent them 14 pallet loads of 4′ x 4′ cubes of fake money. During the filming, the Secret Servic…
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.…
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.…