The cost to produce a $1 bill is approximately 7.5 cents as of 2022. The dollar bill is made of a unique blend of 75% cotton ...

Historically, it would have been accurate to depict dollars as gold coins. Gold coins denominated in dollars freely circulated for parts of our history. Dollar paper currency was redeemable in and ...

Story at a glance Two-fifths of Americans used no cash in 2022. Paper currency and coins have downsides: they are unsanitary, inconvenient, costly to handle and easy to steal. Credit and debit card… ...

The German Hyperinflation, 1923. Excerpt from Paper Money by "Adam Smith," (George J.W. Goodman), pp. 57-62.. In the mid-1960s, money manager George J.W. Goodman began to write a series of ...

It’s true that the dollar’s special role probably lets America borrow a bit more cheaply than it could otherwise, and we in effect get a zero-interest loan from the large quantity of U.S ...