Remember the federal employees in DC were told to work from home. The mint workers took all the coins with them and are hand stamping them. They call the Post Office to pick up their completed work, but they refuse because the packages are too heavy.
Making bullets out of ‘em?
Aren’t we already largely “cashless” in that, the vast majority of the “money supply” economists talk about, is NOT made up of currency and coins? Since the vast majority of the “money supply” is made up of digitized debits and credits in computerized systems nowadays, aren’t we well on the way to being cashless? Could we soon reach a point where it’s just assumed you will use a debit card to spend the “cash” in your bank account, wherever you go?
In a cashless society how does one pay their drug dealer ?
Remember, companies get hacked online quite regularly. Yeah, no way am I trusting non-physical money.
Speaking of cashless, in the past, in Walmart, I’ve avoided the self checkout counters like the plagues — maybe had used them twice in five years. Always paid with cash.
Last week I was in a hurry and decided to use self checkout because the lines were so long. Started to check out with my ONE ITEM, and saw the sign that cash isn’t accepted any more; only cards are accepted. I left my item and walked out.
We almost never use plastic and being forced to do it is extremely piss worthy.
Judging by the quality of coins minted lately I thought they had outsourced coin production to Chucky Cheese.
I’ve seen no local sign of any coin shortage.
Self-checkouts at Walmart only stop taking cash for very short durations for routine reasons.
25 years ago,I had a friend here in central CA. He was a pilot and only had one client..... Wells Fargo. He would make stops in central CA to pick up bags of cancelled checks and fly them to San Francisco. I imagine there’s not much of that anymore either.
What mint issues?
They dont want to give u paper money either...lot of stores wont give you cash back.
There are so many bad agendas piling onto this plandemic it is appalling.
And there is Trump with his Big Pharma regulator operatives, making
I have a couple of coffee cans full of loose change but it is a pain in the rear to cash it in at the bank.
” 1. Disruptions in mint operations has been a recent issue.”
Nonsense BS. Coins last for decades, and if not for the valuable metals in the older ones, they’d still be circulating. A few months of slowing the minting of new coins is, once again, my government lying to me. I’m sick of the bullshit coming out of every, single government agency. I have lost all faith, not that I had a lot to start with.
The shortage of pennies today simply means the nation has run out of common cents.
It’s time for a complete revision of the coinage:
10c, 25c, 50c, $1, $2, $5 with all new designs (after firing the current designers).